Accompanying the series is The Dust Bowl: An Illustrated History, written by Dayton Duncan with a preface by Ken Burns, and published by Chronicle Books.

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But as the Dust Bowl continued for most of the decade and wheat prices plunged to the lowest in recorded history, two-thirds of Saskatchewan farmers were forced to line up for monthly aid.

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