Duchess & Sadie's Spring Domain

Bayfield, Colorado - Sadie and I join you on this 3rd day of May from SW Colorado in the higher elevations of the San Juan mountains, North of Bayfield, Colorado, where we awoke to a thin cover of snow on the ground Sunday morning. They say the first half of this week should see temperatures in the 60's degrees around here during the day.

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How To Clean Cast Iron Toys

Antique cast-iron toys were popular in the late 1800s and early 1900s. When in good condition with all original components, they are sought-after collector's toys. These toys are a common find in attics and estates. You can clean cast-iron toys to help improve their value. Just be careful not to damage the toys in the process.

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The Great Depression of 1930s

I am too young to know anything about the Great Depression of the 1930's, except by reading about it in books and searching for more information about it online.

They say the start of the Great Depression was pegged to the stock market crash, "Black Tuesday," October 29, 1929. The day Dow Jones Industrial Average fell almost 23% -- the market lost between $8 billion and $9 billion in value.

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Great Plains Dust Bowl of 1930's & Dust Bowl Blues

This next video is a segment from Discovery Channel's, Making of A Continent (1989-90) about the Dust Bowl wind erosion of the 1930's.

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Dust Bowl - Black Blizzard (14 April 1935)

windmill1947 put together, May 12, 2009, this documentary was shown on the History Channel. This took place in America's heartland from 1930-'40. Dust Bowl Alternately Called Black Blizzard Clip

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Woody Guthrie - So Long, It's Been Good To Know You

We found this folksong, So Long It's Been Good To Know You, song by Woody Guthrie on YouTube.com at the following youTube user: vantowers, which they put together November 22, 2008

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Old Cast Iron Toys Found at Moving Sale

Bayfield, Colorado - Here is a link to the Old Cast Iron Toys we purchased at a "Moving Sale" here in Southwest Colorado on Saturday, North of Bayfield, Colorado. These old cast iron toys were grouped (boxed) together for Thirty ($30) dollars so we swooped them up. I believe at least one of these old toys would bring $30.

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NW Okie's Thoughts

Alva, Oklahoma - Someone wrote us this week, "We are not OKIES. They went to Califonia (California) during dust bowl. We are Oklahomans & insulted. signed all Oklahomans"

First of all -- I know it was not signed by ALL Oklahomans, because I know some Oklahomans that do not mind being called an "Okie" and are not insulted by the use of the term.

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Living History Farm History of 1930's

The Living History Farm website states, "Farming in the 1930s on the Great Plains was perhaps the most difficult occupation in the world. Farmers not only faced a global economic slow down of historic proportions, but they also faced one of the worst, longest droughts in America's history."

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The Great Dust Storms Videos

Photos and narratives of the dust storms of the 1930's, created by guerillabill - September 24, 2007 - on YouTube.com.

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Dust Bowl Disaster Slideshow & Refugees

gmbudt put this together September 20, 2009. They say, "This is a revised version of the slideshow so many of you have already watched (thank you!). I am discovering / learning new technology, hence the new version. Images of the 1930's Great Plains Dust Bowl, and the Black Sunday Dust Storm in particular, provide a chilling visual backdrop for Woody Guthrie's song Dust Storm Disaster."

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FOR SALE - Old Oklahoma Papers

Brian Wilson (email: brianwillson1965@hotmail.com) inquiry, "I'm looking for someone who buys 1910-1930 Oklahoma newspapers & other Oklahoma paperwork; Woodrow Wilson paper that was sent out to Americans why he would be a better president.

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History of Antique Cast-Iron Toys

Cast-iron was a common toy material from the 1870's until World War II. It was ideally suited for mass-production, the iron was cast in molds that could be used over thousands of times.

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Inquiry - Louthan Family Immigration

Adrienne M. Schloegel commented on a Vol. 10, Iss. 48 article concerning Moses & Elizabeth (Gorrell) Louthan's Children, "I am a descendant of the Louthans. William B. Louthan is my great great grandfather. What book by Tom Fetters did some of this information come from? I would love to get it for my mom who knew her grandfather."

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This Land Is Your Land

We found this Arlo Guthrie - This Land Is Your Land, on jguth3 - YouTube.com site. Guthrie states, "Our grand daughters, Olivia and Jacklyn jumped on stage along with Annie Guthrie, Sarah Lee & Johnny. Arlo stops the song to tell a story his dad Woody used to tell. This was Abe's last night playing with Arlo after twenty years. He was looking forward to working in the recording studio and being home with his family.

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1930's Farm Life Home Movie

Want to see what farm life was like back in the 1930's? Here is what TomWills put together, January 8, 2007, "This is a 16MM home movie of farm life in the 1930's, especially tractors and even a tractor pulling a shed.

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History of The Past

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