Question
I need a good idea for the name of a city for my story about the dust bowl. It is in 1930 and in Kansas (the name doesn't have to be real)
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Writeacher
I think I'd choose "Geiger."
From https://www.history.com/news/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-the-dust-bowl
<i>5. A newspaper reporter gave the Dust Bowl its name.
Associated Press reporter Robert Geiger opened his April 15, 1935, dispatch with this line: “Three little words achingly familiar on a Western farmer’s tongue, rule life in the dust bowl of the continent—if it rains.” “Dust bowl” was probably a throwaway line for Geiger, since two days later he referred to the disaster zone as the “dust belt.” Nevertheless, within weeks the term had entered the national lexicon.</i>
From https://www.history.com/news/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-the-dust-bowl
<i>5. A newspaper reporter gave the Dust Bowl its name.
Associated Press reporter Robert Geiger opened his April 15, 1935, dispatch with this line: “Three little words achingly familiar on a Western farmer’s tongue, rule life in the dust bowl of the continent—if it rains.” “Dust bowl” was probably a throwaway line for Geiger, since two days later he referred to the disaster zone as the “dust belt.” Nevertheless, within weeks the term had entered the national lexicon.</i>