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History is Written By the Winners

A look into the real story behind America’s biggest failure

I remember learning about The Dust Bowl in school but only recently realized our curriculum included a fraction of the whole history. We memorized dates and trivial knowledge about these years but didn’t scratch the surface regarding why it happened or what caused it. How the whole thing could have been prevented…that wasn’t something we covered. Not one single lesson was gleaned after studying “the greatest natural disaster in America’s history” according to Timothy Egan, in his book, “The Worst of the Hard Times”. But it wasn’t because there were no lessons to be learned.

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” -George Santayana

Let’s start with some staggering facts

Diving into Egan’s book, I was astonished by many of the wild stats furnished. His descriptions of the events that occurred during this time in American history sound like something out of a science fiction movie. The recent images we’ve received from Perservearance on the surface of Mars seem like a fair comparison. A few of his stats:

• In one afternoon, over 300,000 tons of Great Plains topsoil was moved.
• Twice as much dirt was moved in a single…