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Plow That Broke The Plains - Depression Era Dust Bowl
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keywords: Depression Era, Great Plains, The Dust Bowl, Prairie Grass, Cattle Ranching, Covered Wagon, Farming, Cracked Landscape, Animal Bones, Sand-Covered Abandoned Farm, Wind Storms, Sand Storms
Synopsis: Deep plowing of the top soil of the Great Plains region of the U.S. in the 1930's coupled with severe drought conditions lead to the Dust Bowl where millions of acres of farmland is blown away by high winds and dust storms forcing thousands of farmers and townsfolk to leave for other States...(read more)
- Date: 1930's
- Duration: 00:28:33
- Sound: Yes
- Color: Monochrome
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: Great Plains
Plow That Broke The Plains - Depression Era Dust Bowl Reel-1
Story of the Great Plains, a wind-swept grass lands that was turned into a dust bowl that stretched from the Texas panhandle to Canada due to deep plowing and a severe drought that lasted several years. Pictorial map of the Great Plains area. View of a vast land of grass, lone cowboy on horseback, herds of cattle grazing, close-up cowboy on white horse. Settlers in wagons and on horseback lined up for land rush to stake land claim. Settlers built fences, plowed the earth, and planted wheat. Wheat combine harvester pulled by team of horses or mules.
Shallow plow furrow illustrates barren, hard, sunbaked ground, woman sweeps dirt and dust off house steps. Newspaper headlines “England Declares War On Germany”, “Wheat Prices Soar”, as wheat demand increased. Shows large, powerful, tractors disking the soil as wheat demand and prices increase as America enters WWI. Short clip WWI tanks on the battlefield. Notice from Government General Land Office “Free Land”, Government Homesteads In The Plains”, “Own Your Own Farm”. By 1923 the the grass lands had become the wheat lands.
Plow That Broke The Plains - Depression Era Dust Bowl Reel-2
Sunbaked, cracked earth with dead animal bones depict severe drought conditions. Abandoned farm equipment, windswept, barren land, nothing to hold the soil as dust storms blew away all of the topsoil.
Hugh dust storms turned this region into a dust bowl that forced people from their farms and started the migration to California and other states. The migrants became known as “Okies”. Shows families abandoning homes and farm equipment and leaving with all earthly possessions. “Oakies on the road away from the dust bowl. Depression era “Oakie” rest camp. Images of barren land.
