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The Dust Bowl from the early and mid 1930s was an environmental disaster of epic proportions. In the 1920s, wheat farming became extremely lucrative, so millions of people were ushered westward into the Great Plains and High Plains of the United States, including Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, Kansas, and as far north as the Dakotas and into Alberta, Canada. The grasslands of the Plains were previously thought to be useless for farming, but that was proven wrong.