visit ncicap.org] touringyear c-span is cities across the country exploring american history. next a look at our recent visit to santa rosa, california. you are watching american history tv. all weekend, every weekend on c-span3. >> i think visitors find most interesting that they have been exposed to burbank's red without ever knowing there was a person behind it. sometimes people take for granted how we have acquired things. >> we are at the luther burbank home and gardens. he was able to introduce or create over 800 varieties of fruits, trees, nuts and flowers. some he imported from different countries and was the first to introduce in the u.s. one of the first words he ever heard was california. he had two brothers who came out for the gold rush. when he got old enough he decided he wanted to focus on --athing new plants newhing -- breeding plants. this is where he ended up after wandering around for a year. we have about an acre and a half here. he had more than five acres. here we have burbank's original home, a house he built in the 1880's. the home is set up as a house

touringyear, c-span is cities across the country, exploring american history. our recent visit to santa rosa, california. you are watching american history tv all weekend every weekend on c-span3. >> we looked in the north.

touringyear, c-span is cities across the country, exploring american history. our recent visit to santa rosa, california. you are watching american history tv all weekend every weekend on c-span3. >> we looked in the north. it looked like smoke out of a train or something. we ran into the storm house because we thought it might be storming. we had to tie wet rags over our mouths just to keep from smothering. the old-timers said they had never seen nothing like that. our house was sealed, but that dust came through somehow. even the stucco houses. you had to mount really good when it was over -- mop really good when it was over. lynn: today we will be looking at our dust bowl migration archives, which we have had since 1994 -- materials gathered beginning in 1974, primarily by journal -- gerald haslam. he received dozens of letters offering to provide him with material. he also gathered material directly from people who worked in the camps. charles todd and robert sunken are probably the most infamous of the people that worked in the camps on a daily basis betwe