How They Did It- April

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This is Dust Bowl diary. Sometimes doing it, was just surviving.

http://chnm.gmu.edu/courses/hist409/dust/low.html

Dust Bowl Diary

-- Little Bit Farm (
littlebitfarm@itlnet.net), April 07, 2004

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1934 - My daddy was 14. They lived hand-to-mouth in Oklahoma and Texas. He didn't talk much about the dust, but he did talk about things like Grandpa giving him 1 or 2 .22 shells and sending him out for supper. It was either shoot well or enjoy a bread and water gravy dinner.

-- Judy (tabletophomestead@earthlink.net), April 09, 2004.

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