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  2. The Dust Bowl (miniseries) - Wikipedia

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    The Dust Bowl is a 2012 American television documentary miniseries directed by Ken Burns which aired on PBS on November 18 and 19, 2012. The two-part miniseries recounts the impact of the Dust Bowl on the United States during the Great Depression of the 1930s. The series features the voices of Patricia Clarkson, Peter Coyote, and Carolyn ...

  3. Dust Bowl - Wikipedia

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    The Dust Bowl was the result of a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s. The phenomenon was caused by a combination of natural factors (severe drought ) and human-made factors: a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent wind erosion , most ...

  4. Black Sunday (storm) - Wikipedia

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    The term "Dust Bowl" initially described a series of dust storms that hit the prairies of Canada and the United States during the 1930s. [4] It now describes the area in the United States most affected by the storms, including western Kansas, eastern Colorado, northeastern New Mexico, and the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles. [5]

  5. Drought Relief Service - Wikipedia

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    "Four extensive droughts developed in the Great Plains area between 1930 and 1940, causing widespread dust storms, agricultural failure, poverty, unemployment and devastation to the nation's economy."

  6. Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Documentary ...

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    PBS [3] Lusitania "Murder on the Atlantic" Kelly McPherson and Melissa Jo Peltier: American Experience "Reagan: Part I" Adriana Bosch PBS "Surviving the Dust Bowl" Chana Gazit A Science Odyssey "In Search of Ourselves" Alice Markowitz Sea Tales "The Doomed Voyage of the St. Louis" Christopher Meindl and Melissa Jo Peltier

  7. Moral Injury: The Grunts - The ... - The Huffington Post

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    Men frenzied with exhaustion and reckless exuberance, eyes and throats burning from dust and smoke, in a battle that erupted after Taliban insurgents castrated a young boy in the village, knowing his family would summon nearby Marines for help and the Marines would come, walking right into a deadly ambush. Here’s Nick, pausing in a lull.

  8. Last Man Club - Wikipedia

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    The Last Man Club was a mutual support group for farmers that chose to stay in the Southern Plains of Texas, US in spite of the devastation caused by the Dust Bowl disaster of the 1930s. It was the first American Dream. During the Dust Bowl, many farmers around Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle Area experienced the worst of the Depression.

  9. Dying To Be Free - The Huffington Post

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    That day, in August 2013, Patrick got in the car and put the duffel bag on a seat. Inside was a talisman he’d been given by the treatment facility: a hardcover fourth edition of the Alcoholics Anonymous bible known as “The Big Book.”