Plow That Broke The Plains - Depression Era Dust Bowl Reel-1

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keywords: Depression Era, Great Plains, The Dust Bowl, Prairie Grass, Cattle Ranching, Covered Wagon, Farming

Synopsis: The story of the Dust Bowl in the Depression Era with scenes of the causes of the Dust Bowl, wind-swept prairie grass, cattle ranching, horse-drawn covered wagon, headlines announcing WWI, Government encouraging WWI veterans to farm the Great Plains and more...(read more)

Date: 1930's
Duration: 00:17:11
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Type: Public Domain
Language: English
Location: Great Plains

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Plow That Broke The Plains - Depression Era Dust Bowl Reel-1

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.