The Dust Bowl

Overview

Chronicles the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history, in which the frenzied wheat boom of the Great Plow-Up, followed by a decade-long drought during the 1930s nearly swept away the breadbasket of the nation.

Network

• PBS

Seasons & Episodes

Cast

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  Patricia Clarkson

  Hazel Lucas Shaw

  2 eps

• 

  Peter Coyote

  Peter Coyote

  2 eps

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  Carolyn McCormick

  Caroline Henderson

  2 eps

Themes

• great depression
• dust storm
• 1930s

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