In a nutshell there are several lessons that can be taken from this book.
-- You can be sitting on top of the world one day, and the next day your fighting for your life.
The southern plains produced the largest wheat crop in the world at the time. Several years later the land was in ruin and the soil ripped up and blown away with the wind.
-- If you screw with the ecology of the land, there will be severe and brutal ramifications for your actions.
The ages old grasslands that supported massive herds of bisons were plowed up and turned over. The skin was ripped off the land destroying topsoil that formed over millenia. The dust storms drifted as far as Chicago, New York and Washington D.C. Ships 200 miles off the coast were covered with dust from the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles. Many died from dust pneumonia and other complications.
