During severe droughts from 1930-1936, approximately 100 million acres of soil in the Southwestern USA, blew away in large dust clouds. Hundreds of thousands of people (“Okies“) left their homes and migrated west during the Great Depression.
The Grapes of Wrath , a poignant story about a poor displaced family, won author John Steinbeck the Pulitzer Prize in 1940.
So if they had plowed it differently, made a few changes, it could have prevented the dust bowl from happening. So interesting, a hard lesson. Holly