An animated music video describing life during the dust bowl era. A simplistic animated music video describing life during the dust bowl era. By 1929 and the crash of the stock market, South Dakota, was already beginning to wither on both the climatic and economic vine. In fact, one writer suggests that when all the commotion about Black Friday on Wall Street hit the papers, the folks in South Dakota were saying something like "been there done that already".... only worse. It was a day and age when the "science" suggested that anthropogenic (man made global warming) climate change could not only be induced, but also manipulated by farmers plowing their fields....the result being rain! The added benefit of this fulfilled the desires of a government obsessed with manifest control of the plains, and the dreams of land boosters eager to make big money on the prairie. But to explorer-scientist John Wesley Powell, who extrapolated real climatological data from field observations, the notion of thousands of little homesteads on the prairie was a paradox. As he observed, this region was prone to drought and required special choices, (not necessarily conventional ones) on behalf of those who wanted to survive there. Nevertheless, the unconventional party surged unto the plains anyway and for a little while, in the 1870s and 80s they toasted their glasses to what seemed to be a victory over the atmosphere. But the outcome of mixing up this cocktail of teleological, wishful ...
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