Jack of Harts

The stock market collapse on Black Friday of 1929 nearly destroyed the Texas economy, and the Dust Bowl that followed ruined what farms survived. City workers lost their jobs, farmers lost their farms, Mexican citizens were sent home with one-way tickets. Thousands of Texans went to California in search of a better life, and Texas struggled to find a way to rebuild the good times it had lost for a decade. But federal programs limited how much they could produce, ostensibly to keep them from producing more than there was a demand for, and the economic fortunes of Texas stumbled on with little relief.