The devastation of the Great Plains during the 1930's
Throughout the 1930's, the Great Plains states of the U.S. (mainly Texas & Oklahoma, and parts of New Mexico, Colorado, and Kansas) as well as Canada experienced an historically unprecedented dust bowl. It was created by poor farming methods that essentially stripped the top layer of soil. This forced tens of thousands of people to abandon their farms, many of them moving to California. These are the pictures of their lands and times.
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A photo of a massive dust storm moving into Elkhard, Kansas.
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It may look like snow but this is dust: Severe wind erosion made this farm... more
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Autos have to turn on lights to penetrate gloom of a dust storm. Amarillo,... more
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Refugees from Oklahoma during the Dust Bowl arrive in San Fernando,... more
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A dust storm in Colorado circa 1936.
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Drifting soil covering chicken house and grove, S. Dak.
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Over this bridge drought refugees are crossing the Colorado River into... more
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A new Dust Bowl program for the Southwest was created in Washington, D.C. on... more
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Dust bowl farmer with tractor and young son near Cland, New Mexico
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Dust bowl farmer driving tractor with young son, near Cland, New Mexico.
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A farm in Dalhart Texas in 1938. The farm was affected by the Dust Bowl but... more
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A photo of an abandoned farm during the Dust Bowl in the Coldwater District,... more
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Mailbox in Dust Bowl. Coldwater District, north of Dalhart, Texas
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Abandoned farm on the high plains, Texas County, Oklahoma.
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She lives on "Scratch Hill," outside Atoka, Oklahoma
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