“Some 150,000 to 200,000 acres of our cultivated land and a large portion of our grass land is literally blowing away for the reason that for the past two years no vegetation has grown. Fields are bare and pastures are without grass to hold the soil. Our roads are blocked. Trucks from consolidated schools have been unable to take the children to their schools.” —F. E. Herring to Elmer Thomas, on conditions in Roger Mills County, Oklahoma, April 7, 1937.
Source: University of Minnesota History Department
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