... tractors existed in the entire state of Kansas later, by 1930 the tractor quantity grew to 60,000 (Dustbowl np). Yearly, the farmers planted wheat on the same soil without thinking of any long-lasting damage done. Over plowed, the millions of acres of grasslands in the Great Plains turned the once nutritious soil into a fine unprotected dust (Bonnifield np). Eventually at the end of 1931, extreme droughts began. The lack of rainfall and extreme winds ... " traveled west to California with their families, desperately searching for work. Farmers tried desperately to plant, but without wate...

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... been plowed were plowed up. Millions of acres of farm land in the great plains were broken". After that they decided to go back to grazing animals. Years later they brought back the livestock that once grazed in the areas. Because they did not take care of the land, the animals hooves ruined the unprotected soil. Winds soon came and the dust made by the hooves were swept up into huge ... dust clouds. This was all because of abuse and farmers not taking care of their land. The National Air and Space Museum states "As the land dried up, great clouds of dust and sand, carried by the wind, c...

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... a very thorough manner, was a chain of events that was perpetuated by the basic capitalistic society's "need" for expansion and consumption. Considered by some as one of the worst ecological catastrophes in the history of man, Worster argues that the Dust Bowl was created not by nature's work, but by an American culture that was working exactly the way it was planned. In essence, the Dust Bowl was the effect of a society, which deliberately set out ... refused at first to accept government help, optimistically believing that better days were ahead. Some moved out of the plains, running ...

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... , the disaster also impacted the rest of the country. Popular blues singers, including Woody Guthrie wrote songs about the disaster, like "Dust Bowl Blues" and "Dust Can't Kill Me." Great authors of the time wrote books about the tragedy. The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck is the most famous of them. The Dust Bowl of the 1930's was an ecological disaster that destroyed the livelihoods of many farmers and ranchers. In an ironic twist, the settlers who inhabited the lands inevitably were the instruments of ... their own demise. Their lack of knowledge and poor agricultural practices le...

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