Drought and dust storms plagued the Great Plains in the 1930s and forced residents to move to California during the Depression. The decade-long crisis sparked the largest migration in American history and a change in standard farming techniques; it also inspired John Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath.
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