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 ...

I was born in what’s now the center — what was considered the center of the Panhandle, the Dust Bowl. I feel like that just being raised in that time period, I have a good history to remember.

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

TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) — The Dust Bowl was an event that happened almost 100 years ago in the United States where severe dust storms moved across the country damaging agriculture. With the severe ...

The Grace Museum’s current art exhibition series Texas Regionalism and Beyond is almost over! You can learn more about the ...

(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 ...