Dust Bowl Broadcast: Harvesting the High Plains

By Jerry Schleicher
Published on March 6, 2013
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A Gleaner Baldwin Model A; local resident Jeff Bradshaw as John Kriss.
A Gleaner Baldwin Model A; local resident Jeff Bradshaw as John Kriss.
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Dwight Vance operates the Baldwin Gleaner Model A in the wheatfield as Jay Kriss films.
Dwight Vance operates the Baldwin Gleaner Model A in the wheatfield as Jay Kriss films.
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Dwight at the wheel of a McCormick-Deering 22-36.
Dwight at the wheel of a McCormick-Deering 22-36.
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Jay Kriss filming freshly listed land.
Jay Kriss filming freshly listed land.
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Dwight at the crank of the McCormick-Deering 22-36.
Dwight at the crank of the McCormick-Deering 22-36.
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An International WD-9, driven by Lyndon Gruggs, pulling a one-way plow.
An International WD-9, driven by Lyndon Gruggs, pulling a one-way plow.
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Producer Sydney Duvall.
Producer Sydney Duvall.

For nearly a decade,
towering dust storms scoured the High Plains destroying crops and lives,
forcing hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes and farms across Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma and Texas.
A new PBS documentary, Harvesting the High Plains, tells the tale of two
men who overcame the challenges of the Dust Bowl years to carve out one of the
nation’s largest wheat-farming operations.

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