Lange, Dorothea, photographer. Dust bowl farmer with tractor and young son near Cland, New Mexico. June, 1938. Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/pictures/item/fsa2000001822/PP/. (Accessed October 03, 2016.)
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Yes, Mike, the Great Depression. Reminds me, as told to me by way of anecdote, when money was so devalued that people carted bank notes around in wheelbarrows. To buy a loaf of bread.
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I don’t remember many people talking about it. The only specific recollection I have is that my great-grandfather was able to purchase enough hay to make it through without losing the farm and, in fact, subsidized my great-uncle in buying a ranch in the Nebraska sandhills.
Odd that I don’t recall hearing much about it since it ended only about a decade before I was born.