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Untold story of Dust Bowl survivors [video 67min]

In the 1930s parts of America experienced blinding dust storms -- millions of tons of dirt blowing across the vast expanses of flat land. This is the subject of New York Times reporter Timothy Egan's new book, The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl. In it, the author chronicles the sacrifices made by families living in the Dust Bowl. Nearly 250,000 people were displaced in Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Texas, and Colorado dealt with the suffocating dust storms that ravaged nearly 100 million acres of the America's Great Plains. This program was recorded in January 2006. Recently, this book received the National Book Award for nonfiction.
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