Sunday, April 14, 1935, began as a warm spring day in the western part of Oklahoma known as the Panhandle. The sun shone, birds sang, and a gentle southwest wind stirred the fields. In the small town of Guymon and in others like it, where most people...

"Dust Bowl" is a term coined by a reporter for the Washington (D.C.) Evening Star to describe the effects of severe wind erosion in the Great Plains during the 1930s, caused by severe drought and lack of conservation practices. For a...

The Dust Bowl was a series of dust storms causing major ecology and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands from 1930 to 1936,( in some areas until 1940) caused by severe drought conditions coupled with decades of extensive farming...