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In his article "The Southern Great Plains Wind Erosion Maps of 1936–1937" from Vol. 85 No. 4 of Agricultural History, Geoff Cunfer combines historical maps and GIS information to uncover a more complex view of historical land use during the Dust Bowl era than scholars have ever had before. Though the images are embedded in the article, the Society wanted to replicate them here in even greater detail.
Figure 1: The Core and Addition Counties
Figure 2: Soil Conservation Survey, Souther Great Plains Wind-Erosion Area
Figure 3: Digitized Polygon Layer Over Original Scanned Map
Figure 4: Mosaiced and Edgematched GIS
Figure 5: Land Use, Moore County, Texas, 1936
Figure 6: Wind Erosion Accumulation, Moore County, Texas, 1936
