In the 1910s and 1920s the southern Plains was "the last frontier of agriculture" according to the government, when rising wheat prices, a war in Europe, a series of unusually wet years, and...

The Dust Bowl 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...

Nov 18, 2012 · it would come to be called "the great plow up." Pamela Riney-Kehrberg: IF YOU HAD BEEN A WHEAT FARMER IN THE 1920s, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN RELATIVELY EASY TO MAKE MONEY. YOU NEEDED LESS LAND TO...

In the 1910s and 1920s the southern Plains was "the last frontier of agriculture" according to the government, when rising wheat prices, a war in Europe, a series of unusually wet years, and generous federal farm policies created a land boom – the Great Plow-Up that turned 5.2 million acres of thick native grassland into wheat fields.

From PBS - The Dust Bowl begins with the deep history of the place the Plains Indians considered home, where the short grasses that covered the treeless expa...

Nov 18, 2012 · In the first episode of Ken Burns's THE DUST BOWL, feel the full force of the worst manmade environmental disaster in America's history as survivors recall the terror of the dust storms, the desperation of hungry families and how they managed to find hope even as the earth and he... Read all.

The Great Plow-Up The grasslands of the southern Plains were rapidly turned into wheat fields. Then following the early years of the drought, storms killed crops and livestock and literally rearranged the landscape.

Mar 23, 2024 · A documentary about the 1930s drought of North American prairie farm land, and its consequences during the great depression.

In the early 20th century, homesteaders converge on the southern Plains, where wet years, rising wheat prices and World War I produce a classic boom. Then, in 1931, a decade-long drought begins, exacerbated by the Great Depression.

In the early twentieth century, thousands of homesteaders and "suitcase farmers" converge on the southern Plains, where wet years, rising wheat prices and World War I produce a classic boom. Millions of acres of virgin sod are plowed up.