Dust Bowl
"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 ...
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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 ...
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The time period from 1929 to 1941 marked a forlorn era in American history known as the Great Depression. During this time, unemployment levels increased dramatically, countless banks failed, i...
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James N. Gregory, in his lecture "The Dust Bowl Migration: Poverty Stories, Race Stories," went beyond the superficial rumors about stories of the Great Depression and Dust Bowl; instead, he deeply ex...
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People's attitudes toward the environment changed mostly during the Dust Bowl. The Dust Bowl was the period between 1931 and 1939 in which the plains states were nearly unfarmable and nearly uninh...
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Dust Bowl
Dust Bowl
