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  1. 2 days ago · Historical Highlights: The Dust Bowl Homes of Delta County. Farming in the Midwest during the 1920s received a boost from gasoline-powered tractors and combine harvesters. Unfortunately, the rapid mechanization of farm equipment led to the destruction of natural grasslands on the plains of Kansas, Oklahoma, and Colorado.

  2. 4 days ago · Dust Bowl, name for both the drought period in the Great Plains that lasted from 1930 to 1936 and the section of the Great Plains of the United States that extended over southeastern Colorado, southwestern Kansas, the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma, and northeastern New Mexico.

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  3. 3 days ago · Robert Benecke captured 19th-century western Kansas landscapes before massive European migrations to the area transformed them. In the intervening years, the dust bowl, mass extinction of bison ...

  4. 1 day ago · Robert Benecke captured 19th-century western Kansas landscapes before massive European migrations to the area transformed them. In the intervening years, the dust bowl, mass extinction of bison, and expansion of mechanized agriculture have all led to a profusion of trees, ponds and lakes across the Sunflower State. When railroad companies hired Robert Benecke to help

  5. 2 days ago · 9/11's long legacy: How the attack on the World Trade Center is still claiming lives. Diseases related to the dust and smoke produced by the collapse of the Twin Towers have claimed twice as many ...

  6. 5 days ago · What Caused the Dust Bowl? Manifest Destiny When Was the Dust Bowl? ‘Black Blizzards’ Strike America

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  8. 6 days ago · December 17, 1961: Kansas defeated Rice 33–7 in the 1961 Bluebonnet Bowl to earn their first Bowl Game victory in program history. September 8, 1984: Kansas defeated Wichita State 31–7 in their final game against Wichita State before the school eliminated their football program in 1987.

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