Amarillo, Texas: A Story of Survival Amarillo, Texas, is a town that tells a story of survival during the Dust Bowl era. This ...

Later, during the Great Depression, severe drought and blinding dust storms turned the region into the Dust Bowl. Grandfather of 4-year-old girl stuck in home with bodies of mom, brother wanted ...

During the Great Depression, the United States experienced years of massive dust storms that would become known as the Dust Bowl era.

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

The 1935 tragedy during a years-long drought compounded by a lack of soil conservation efforts "should be remembered as the ...

A great dust cloud passed through Oklahoma on this Sunday in 1935. Woody Guthrie said, "We thought it was our doom." ...

Roosevelt, was desperately trying to recover from the shock of the Great Depression ... which worked to combat erosion caused by dust storms by reforming farming methods.

It was there, in the darkest hours of the Great Depression, that a decade-long series of dust storms ravaged the land ... of the world's great grasslands—during the 1920s, lured by cheap land ...

The story of the farmers who came to the Southern Plains of Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas dreaming of prosperity, and lived through ten years of drought, dust ... during the Depression. During the ...

Farmers had already been struggling before the Great Depression. During the 1920s, the modernisation of farming, including the use of new fertilisers and farm machinery, had led to overproduction.