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Article: Dust Bowl
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- Dictionary of American History
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DUST BOWL
DUST BOWL,
a 97-million-acre section of southeastern Colorado, northeastern New Mexico, western Kansas, and the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma, that in the Depression-torn 1930s was devastated by dust storms, resulting in the one of the greatest agro ecological disasters in American history. Already suffering from one
of the worst droughts in recent history and with eastern markets insisting upon the adoption of unsustainable agricultural practices to maximize production, the region was hit by strong winds that lifted the dry topsoil from fields, creating clouds of dust that, at their worst, plunged communities into total darkness ...
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Article: Drought conditions similar to Dust Bowl: Experts ...
Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM);
March 21, 2006 ;
700+ words
... ... the devastating Dust Bowl drought of the ... Eastern and Southern New Mexico, now suffer from ... another, Texas, New Mexico, southeast Colorado ... did during the Dust Bowl drought from 1931 ... all or parts of New Mexico be declared a disaster ...
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