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"In the roads where the teams moved, where the wheels milled the ground and the hooves of the horses beat the ground, the dirt crust broke and the dust formed. Every moving thing lifted the dust into the air: a walking man lifted a thick layer as high as his waist, and a wagon lifted the dust a high as the fence tops, and an automobile boiled a cloud behind it. The dust was long in settling back again." (Steinbeck, p. 4)

"The plows crossed and recrossed the rivulet marks. The last rains lifted the corn quickly and scattered weed colonies and grass along the sides of the roads so that the gray country and the dark red country began to dissapear under a green cover." (Steinbeck, p. 3)

Thomas Hart Benton, 1889-1975

Bottom: Cradling Wheat, 1939, http://www.spencerart.ku.edu/~sma/images/print/farm/Bentonc.jpg Top: Unknown, http://www.kickingwind.com/assetseod/benton.jpg

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