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245 00 Ken Burns The Dust Bowl.
264 1 [San Francisco, California, USA] :|bKanopy Streaming,
|c2015.
300 1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 114 min.) :
|bdigital, .flv file, sound
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500 Title from title frames.
518 Originally produced by PBS in 2012.
520 Until the arrival of European and American settlers in the
late nineteenth century, the southern Plains of the United
States were predominantly grasslands, the home and hunting
grounds of many Native American tribes and the range of
untold millions of bison. It was seldom used for farming.
Bitterly cold winters, hot summers, high winds and
especially low, unreliable precipitation made it
unsuitable for standard agriculture. But at the start of
the 1900s, offers of cheap public land attracted farmers
to the region, and in World War I, in the midst of a
relatively wet period, a lucrative new wheat market opened
up. Advances in gasoline-powered farm machinery made
production faster and easier than ever. During the 1920s,
millions of acres of grasslands across the Plains were
converted into wheat fields at an unprecedented rate. In
1930, with the Great Depression underway, wheat prices
collapsed. Rather than follow the government's urging to
cut back on production, desperate farmers harvested even
more wheat in an effort to make up for their losses.
Fields were left exposed and vulnerable to a drought,
which hit in 1932. Once the winds began picking up dust
from the open fields, they grew into dust storms of
biblical proportions. Each year the storms grew more
ferocious and more frequent, sweeping up millions of tons
of earth, covering farms and homes across the Plains with
sand, and spreading the dust across the country. Children
developed often fatal "dust pneumonia," business owners
unable to cope with the financial ruin committed suicide,
and thousands of desperate Americans were torn from their
homes and forced on the road in an exodus unlike anything
the United States has ever seen. Yet The Dust Bowl is also
a story of heroic perseverance against enormous odds:
families finding ways to survive and hold on to their land,
New Deal programs that kept hungry families afloat, and a
partnership between government agencies and farmers to
develop new farming and conservation methods. The Dust
Bowl chronicles this critical moment in American history
in all its complexities and profound human drama. It is
part oral history, using compelling interviews of 26
survivors of those hard times-what will probably be the
last recorded testimony of the generation that lived
through the Dust Bowl. Filled with seldom seen movie
footage, previously unpublished photographs, the songs of
Woody Guthrie, and the observations of two remarkable
women who left behind eloquent written accounts, the film
is also a historical accounting of what happened and why
during the 1930s on the southern Plains.
538 Mode of access: World Wide Web.
650 0 Social history|xDepressions|y1919-1945|vHistory|zUnited
States|zGreat Plains.|xHistory.
650 0 Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939|xDepressions|xDust storms
|xDroughts|xEnvironmental disasters|y1931-1939|vHistory
|zUnited States|zGreat Plains.|xEffect of drought on
|xHistory.
655 7 Documentary films.|2lcgft
700 1 Burns, Ken,|d1953-|efilm director.
710 2 Kanopy (Firm)
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