That was an interesting article. I recdommend the book "The Worst Hard Time" by Timothy Egan, which describes the dust bowl. One of the key things that led up to the dust bowl was the belief that a family could make a living off 160 acres of western prarie. That, combined with historically high grain prices after the first World War, led to the farming practices that eventually destroyed much of the plains.
Many years ago, I would regularly make the drive down US 385 through Lamar and Springfield, CO. Anyone who has been through there can attest that this is some of the most sparsely populated country east of the Rockies. What I never new until I read Worst Hard Time is that in the early 20th century there were a lot of people living there. Those people left when the dust bowl came, and never returned.
Many people think the depopulation of the Great Plains is a recent phenomenom, it's not. It's been going on for 80 years, and it's going to continue.
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