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Three million people left their farms on the Great Plains during the drought and half a million migrated to other states, almost all to the West.

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Marilyn Lott wrote a poem about the Dust Bowl called "Those Terrible Dust Bowl Days"

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The Dust Bowl prompted a cultural response from artists like Dorothea Lange, Woody Guthrie, and John Steinbeck, who lamented the American economic ethos that had created the disaster.

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Sky Parsons , Rasheed Woods and Chris Jenkins

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60% of the population was affected by The Dust Bowl.

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Government also purchased 11.3 million acres of submarginal land to keep it out of production.

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The Dust Bowl lasted for about a decade.

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The states affected by the Dust Bowl were Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado and New Mexico.

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The Dust Bowl was the name given to the Great Plains region devastated by drought in 1930s depression-ridden America.