The infamous “Dust Bowl” of the 1930s saw much of the central part of the nation simply turned to dust. “Simply turned to dust” is a little misleading: much of the nation’s most fertile areas turned to dust…and sand, and hard-baked soil in which virtually nothing would grow.
This, at a time when the nation was suffering from another disaster – the Great Depression.
No wonder there was a revival of religious fervor in some areas affected: many people, especially in rural areas, believed God was inflicting punishment for the “modern” ways in which people were living in the cities of the 1920s and 1930s.
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