The Dust Bowl, from prolonged drought ... older relatives and friends which paint a picture of dirt and desperation during ...

Severe drought hits the Midwestern and Southern Plains. As the crops die, the “black blizzards” begin. Dust from the over-plowed and over-grazed land begins to blow. When Franklin Roosevelt ...

In the precursor years to the 1930s’ Dust Bowl, farmers began drawing on rapidly depleting groundwater resources that took tens of thousands of years to accumulate. The number of family farms in ...

Dust storms are not new occurrences in Illinois. The Dust Bowl ... fuel during and after the oil crisis of the 1970s. But ...

During the 1920s ... and a partnership between government agencies and farmers to develop new farming and conservation methods. The Dust Bowl chronicles this critical moment in American history ...

Alyssa Colman reflects on her research behind her forthcoming middle grade novel, 'Where Only Storms Grow'—which takes place ...

In his magisterial history of the region that came to be known as the Dust Bowl—the ... grasslands—during the 1920s, lured by cheap land and rising wheat prices. As farmers plowed the prairie ...

On April 14, 1935, a wall of dust, hundreds of feet high, descended on farms and homes in the Great Plains. People drove as fast as they could to get away from the black clouds or covered their faces, ...

Ninety years this week, Oklahomans were met with a large wall of rolling black dust and sand, a day now known as "Black ...

During the 1930s, drought and economic depression forced prairie farmers to abandon their farms ... known as the Dust Bowl, hits parts of the Canadian prairies. (National Archives of Canada ...

The Dust Bowl, arising from a combination of prolonged drought, heavy winds, and over farming leading to fruitless farmland, and skies blotted out by red and brown dust.