
Chronicles the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history, in which the frenzied wheat boom of the Great Plow-Up, followed by a decade-long drought during the 1930s nearly swept away the breadbasket of the nation.
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Air Date: 2012-11-18
The grasslands of the southern Plains were rapidly turned into wheat fields. Then following the early years of the dr...
Air Date: 2012-11-19
Black Sunday was only halfway through the decade-long crisis. The storms continued. The Great Depression still affect...