In Spring of 1936, massive dust storms from the Great Plains suddenly and unexpectedly invaded the farmlands of southwestern Iowa, carrying with them the red, wind-eroded topsoil of Texas and Oklahoma. Standing at the edge of his cornfield, a Swedish tenant farmer and his young daughter gazed in dismay as a horizon-hugging cloud swiftly approached their home, pushed along by a howling straight-line wind. Both father and daughter were aware of the...
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