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I think it was drought along with insufficient crop rotation causing massive erosion.
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Dust.
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The US government!
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Bagless vacuum cleaners. *I hate bagless vacuum's!
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drought, which made the land to be barren. In that area the wind blows most of the time. It can still happen.
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Extreme dryness, lack of proper irrigation, inadequate terracing - lots of things.
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poor farming and drought.
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Mechanized farm machinery led to the tilling and plowing under of NATURAL DROUGHT RESISTANT PLANTS on a much greater scale than before ..... Crop plants replaced natural plants ..... Soil erosion began on a larger scale ..... Drought began around 1932 ..... Soil dries out where NON-native plants were removed ..... Natural storms and blizzards began to blow topsoil away ..... Farmers abandoned fields and plowed new ones as an inexpensive way to keep planting crops ..... Abandoned fallow land began to blanket Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico and Colorado ..... Drought and blizzards continued until most topsoil was gone.
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Years of plowing up the natural grasslands of Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, and ...... to plant more and more wheat for a booming market... Collapse of the market, plus an intense and prolonged drought - with almost continuous winds - made life miserable for many thousands and claimed the lives, particularly, of the very young and elderly. Should you want to read an excellent account of those who survived the "Dirty Thirties" I recommend "The Worst Hard Time" by Timothy Egan.
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dust?
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