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    The Dust Bowl: An Interactive History Adventure
    The Dust Bowl: An Interactive History Adventure
    The Dust Bowl: An Interactive History Adventure
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    The Dust Bowl: An Interactive History Adventure

    By Allison Lassieur

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    Everything in this book happened to real people. And YOU CHOOSE what side you’re on and what you do next. The choices you make could lead you to survival or to death. In the You Choose Books set, only YOU can CHOOSE which path you take through history. What will it be? Get ready for an adventure…
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCapstone Young Readers
    Release dateAug 1, 2016
    ISBN9781515743262
    The Dust Bowl: An Interactive History Adventure
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    Allison Lassieur

    Allison Lassieur once lived in Tennessee and traveled the path Hattie and her family might have followed from Nashville to the banks of the Mississippi River near Memphis. Today she lives in upstate New York and shares a 110-year-old house with her husband, her daughter, three dogs, two cats, and more history books than she can count.

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      The Dust Bowl - Allison Lassieur

      orientation.

      ABOUT YOUR ADVENTURE

      YOU are living in the United States during the 1930s. The Great Depression has gripped the country, causing people to lose their farms, jobs, and homes. How will you survive?

      In this book, you’ll explore how the choices people made meant the difference between life and death. The events you’ll experience happened to real people.

      Chapter One sets the scene. Then you choose which path to read. Follow the links at the bottom of each page as you read the stories. The decisions you make will change your outcome. After you finish one path, go back and read the others for new perspectives and more adventures. Use your device's back buttons or page navigation to jump back to your last choice.

      YOU CHOOSE the path you take through history.

      CHAPTER 1

      From Land to Dust

      Long before the first European explorers came, American Indians and the buffalo lived throughout the Great Plains. This wide prairie stretches from Canada all the way south to Texas. It spreads east of the Rocky Mountains to the eastern Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma.

      In the mid- to late 1800s, the U.S. government forced American Indians to live on reservations. The government encouraged settlers to farm the fertile land. By the 1920s, farming in the Great Plains was booming. A few years of heavy rainfall produced huge yields of wheat and other crops. Owners of large farms got rich.

      In the 1920s, farmers in the Great Plains plowed thousands of acres of land.

      Then two things happened that helped create a disaster. In 1929, the stock market crashed. People had been buying shares of companies on the stock market to make money. Prices of stocks kept going higher. Some people made a lot of money.

      People swarmed the streets near the New York Stock Exchange on October 29, 1929.

      But on Tuesday, October 29, stock market prices fell about 80 percent. People panicked and tried to sell their shares. The stock market crash caused many companies and banks to go out of business. People were left with no money and no jobs. Crop prices fell. People called it the Great Depression.

      In 1931, the second part of the disaster began. Rainfall sharply decreased in parts of the Great Plains. The Plains had experienced droughts before, but the rains had always returned. Not this time. Hot winds blew across the land, taking millions of tons of soil with it.

      The southern Great Plains, including parts of Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Kansas, and Colorado, dried up and blew away. A reporter calls the area the Dust Bowl, and the name sticks.

      You and millions of other people are living with the horror of the Dust Bowl. Some are determined to stay on their farms. Many give up and move to large cities or to California to start a new life. Others travel to the Dust Bowl to write stories and take photos for the rest of the world to see.

      To try to stay on your farm, press here.

      To leave your farm to find work elsewhere, press here.

      To be a government photographer in the Dust Bowl, press here.

      CHAPTER 2

      A World of Dust

      You stand on the porch of your white clapboard house and look out onto the Kansas land. Farm life is all you’ve ever known. Three years ago, in 1929, you married your girlfriend, Nettie. Your daughter, Ruby, was born the next year. Your father gave you enough land to start a farm of your own.

      Last year, 1931, a drought caused

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