A period of severe dust storms in the 1930s that devastated the American prairies, causing mass migration westward.
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My Coffee With Niles
Season 1 · Episode 24 · S01E24
“desperately poor people escaping the Dust Bowl, their meager possessions strapped to rickety old trucks”
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