Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 11, Number 8, DeMotte, Jasper County, 9 January 1941 — Always a DTST Bowl [ARTICLE]

Always a DTST Bowl

In his intensely filler* sting h “The Empire of Dust” Lawn •••»• Svobida says: '‘History rewals,ti *t early caravans that crossed this ritory (the Dust Bowl) a hundred years ago sometimes encnnnte• Hi dust storms during which v t* was reduced to)bs low as Irtu v;n;h depressions were blown out . . and today they form sloughs and lagoons Ten to fifty of them can be Observed in ten miles of travel. They“are commonly called j buffalo wallows, from an erroneous belief that they were trampled out by huge herds of bison. So the Dust Bowl has always been there.”