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It mostly sprang up during the Great Depression because of Dust Bowl refugees heading west.

From Vox

Finally, in a virtually extinct Dust Bowl drawl, he started talking.

From Vox

Judith Baca’s vivid murals grace a freeway underpass and a flood control channel, where they convey vital California stories like those of Dust Bowl migrants, the Zoot Suit Riots, and the first Olympic women’s marathon.

From Time

From the American Dust Bowl, thousands of destitute farm families stream westward.

My parents were born in the midst of the Dust Bowl, so I heard those stories my whole life.

As a “giant heat wave” moved east across the nation, heat records that dated back to the Dust Bowl fell with uncanny speed.

I grew up on the prairies of South Dakota during the years of the Dust Bowl and this book tells our story.

During the dust bowl period, millions of people were forced to abandon their farms and livelihoods.

The people from the Dust Bowl, as the district is called, had to migrate, or starve.

Dramatic picturization of the forces of nature operating in what droughts of the 1930's caused to be called "the Dust Bowl."

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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