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The Depression Comes to the Southern Plains

Wheat prices continue to fall and a drought begins, farmers elect a democrat, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, for president.
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Clip Season 1 Episode 1 Length 05:45 Premiere: 11/18/12

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Season 1 Episodes

Reaping the Whirlwind
S1 E2 Length 1:55:45 Premiere Date 11/19/12

The Great Plow-Up
S1 E1 Length 1:55:15 Premiere Date 11/18/12

Mechanized Agriculture
Clip Length 04:39 Premiere Date 11/18/12

Recollection
Clip Length 07:54 Premiere Date 11/18/12

The Wheat Bubble Burst
Clip Length 07:02 Premiere Date 11/18/12

The Depression Comes to the Southern Plains
Clip Length 05:45 Premiere Date 11/18/12

Episode 1 Introduction
Clip Length 05:09 Premiere Date 11/18/12

Boom Time
Clip Length 03:24 Premiere Date 11/18/12

Modern Machinery
Clip Length 04:09 Premiere Date 11/18/12

Environmental Catastrophe
Clip Length 12:11 Premiere Date 11/18/12

Low Valued Wheat
Clip Length 01:56 Premiere Date 11/18/12

Suicides
Clip Length 01:52 Premiere Date 11/18/12

Black Blizzards
Clip Length 02:42 Premiere Date 11/18/12

Black Sunday
Clip Length 03:27 Premiere Date 11/18/12

FDR Visits the Dust Bowl
Clip Length 01:37 Premiere Date 11/18/12

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