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Episode 39 - Empty America w/ Ashley Colby and Jason Snyder

Doomer Optimism

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The Dust Bowl

The villages are spaced exactly ten miles apart along the run of the railroad tracks. And also, you had to have a village on a ten mile basis, because when this land was settled by the homesteaders. They predominantly did not have the automobile. So they were coming in on horses wagons. You can still see the old machinery abandoned all over the place. The population of the county peaked it, i think, five or six thousand.

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