Dalhart, Texas: Echoes of the Past Dalhart, Texas, stands as a beacon of history from the Dust Bowl era, offering visitors a unique glimpse into the past. This town, once overwhelmed by dust ...

Burials on the roadside. Starvation. No clothes. Lost businesses. These are among themes in handwritten notes left at a Gilcrease Museum kiosk at the end of a current exhibit of Dorothea Lange ...

A World War II vet who says he’s lived a "charmed life" despite surviving the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl and a global war, turned 100 on May 13 and continues to give back to his community ...

FORT SMITH -- The Museum of History brought color to the Dust Bowl and Great Depression era through a presentation by historian Steve Kite telling the stories of how families survived the disasters.

My family lost our farm in the Dust Bowl: a brutal decade in which the combination of poor land management and drought robbed much of the Great Plains of its topsoil.

The iconic photos from the southern plains states during the Great Depression say it all: the haunted eyes of weary mothers, children with their faces wrapped against the choking dust and families ...

The Great Depression began when the stock markets crashed in October 1929, sparking more than a decade of economic turmoil. Depression Dust Bowl sparked migration west | Fresno Bee Business ...

As the dust storms became larger and more intense, children developed fatal "dust pneumonia" and business owners, already reeling from the Great Depression, were devastated, some driven to suicide ...

In "The Dust Bowl," the latest documentary film from director Ken Burns, the events that led to the creation of what Burns calls "the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history" are ...

But the dust still got in, and his family needed a kerosene ... West with the Okie migrations of the Great Depression. ... of the dust bowl era. ”It was the Depression and the drought and the ...