True Teen Story From History: The Dust Bowl

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The articles, “Blacky Sunday” and “True Teen Story from History: The Dust Bowl” have many things in common and many differences. Some differences were, the places it took place in. Ike was driving up to Baca County, Colorado and Catherine was in Kansas at her grandma’s house. What was also different was their childhood. “His house was a dugout: a one room home built into a hill, with walls made of sod, or soil. He shared this room with his parents and eight siblings.” this was stated on page 7. They also had black rollers where they lived that could funnel as high as 10,000 feet. Catherine was never that poor when she was a child. Yes these are different people and different places each one took place but they both saw a huge dust

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