This unprecedented extreme weather phenomena became known as the Dust Bowl. And as if this wasn't enough, it all took place while the United States was in the grip of the Great Depression.

Great dust storms spread from the Dust Bowl area. The drought is the worst ever in U.S. history, covering more than 75 percent of the country and affecting 27 states severely. Roosevelt signs the ...

Gramma Lottie’s daily menu—oatmeal for breakfast, beans for supper, and homemade bread smeared with lard for lunch when they ...

The Dust Bowl, a two-part, four-hour documentary series by Ken Burns, aired November 18 and 19, 2012 on PBS. The film chronicles the environmental catastrophe that, throughout the 1930s ...

He’s seen it all before. Back in the Dust Bowl days he watched in awe as dark clouds of topsoil swallowed up the family ranch. That was in the mid-1930s, when Bill Tullos was just a boy.

The Dust Bowl was an event that happened almost 100 years ago in the United States where severe dust storms moved across the ...

Most of the Dust Bowl-era winters in our region were mild and dry, with very little snow and many days well above freezing.

(Max McCoy) 1. Hoping for a miracle to save the Ogallala Aquifer? Prepare for the new Dust Bowl. (Max McCoy, June 30) In the summer of 1894, a curious railway car plied the tracks of western ...

Thousands of families simply abandoned their farms altogether. In 1929, an unprecedented decade of drought, known as the Dust Bowl, hits parts of the Canadian prairies. (National Archives of ...