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The Dust Bowl was the result of a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s. The phenomenon was caused by a combination of natural factors (severe drought ) and human-made factors: a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent wind erosion , most ...
A farmer and his two sons during a dust storm in Cimarron County, Oklahoma, April 1936; photo by Arthur Rothstein. Dust Bowl Cimarron County, Oklahoma is a 1936 photograph of the Dust Bowl taken by 21-year-old Arthur Rothstein, a photographer for the federal Farm Security Administration, while he was driving through Cimarron County, Oklahoma ...
The Dust Bowl ravaged the Oklahoma Panhandle and nearby areas in the 1930s. Short-term drought and long-term poor agricultural practices led to the Dust Bowl when massive dust storms blew away the soil from large tracts of arable land and deposited it on nearby farms or even far-distant locations. The resulting crop failures forced many small ...
The term "Dust Bowl" initially described a series of dust storms that hit the prairies of Canada and the United States during the 1930s. [4] It now describes the area in the United States most affected by the storms, including western Kansas, eastern Colorado, northeastern New Mexico, and the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles. [5]
Excessive heat and drought problems affected the United States in 1934–35 from the Rocky Mountains, Texas and Oklahoma to parts of the Midwestern, Great Lakes, and Mid-Atlantic states. These droughts and excessive heat spells were parts of the Dust Bowl and concurrent with the Great Depression in the United States.
The Dust Bowl disaster of the 1930s in the Great Plains of the central United States ... Dust Bowl Cimarron County, Oklahoma; F. Howard Finnell;
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The Last Man Club was a mutual support group for farmers that chose to stay in the Southern Plains of Texas, US in spite of the devastation caused by the Dust Bowl disaster of the 1930s. It was the first American Dream. During the Dust Bowl, many farmers around Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle Area experienced the worst of the Depression.