Ninety years ago, the worst dust storm in American history blasted the Great Plains. The Dust Bowl had arrived.

During the 1930s, drought and economic depression ... of families simply abandoned their farms altogether. In 1929, an unprecedented decade of drought, known as the Dust Bowl, hits parts of ...

Roosevelt, was desperately trying to recover from the shock of the Great Depression ... American’s fate was closely tied to that of Dust Bowl farmers. One of these was Hugh Hammond Bennett ...

Learn about the Dust Bowl, and what people lost and did to survive during a "Living Voices: Journey From the Dust" ...

This is exactly what happened to the late author Sanora Babb. Her inspiration began as a child in Southeastern Colorado after ...

Travel Bucketlist The Great Depression: Visiting Dust Bowl-Era Towns in the U.S. Posted: March 2, 2025 | Last updated: March 2, 2025 Step back in time as we explore the haunting yet resilient ...

The family moved to California during the Great Depression and Dust Bowl era and Glen grew up in Oxnard, California. At 17, he joined the Navy and proudly served on a tugboat during World War II.

The Dust Bowl, a two-part, four-hour documentary ... into wheat fields at an unprecedented rate. In 1930, with the Great Depression underway, wheat prices collapsed. Rather than follow the ...

The Great Depression called the established ... Two-thirds of Saskatchewan families received relief after the Dust Bowl left prairie farmers with parched, dead fields. But from the prairie dust ...

Kristin Hannah, the author of “The Nightingale” and “The Great Alone,” had much to live up to when releasing another historical fiction novel. Hannah is known as one of the ...