The Dust Bowl 1931 - 1939
“We haven’t had a good crop in three years, not since the bounty of ’31, and we’re all whittled down to the bone these days,” Karen Hesse Out of the Dust
One of the pioneer women of the Oklahoma panhandle Dust Bowl
Dust Bowl farmers of west Texas in town
“We watched as the storm swallowed the light. The sky turned from blue to black, night descended in an instant and the dust was on us.” Karen Hesse Out of the Dust
Black Sunday April 14, 1935. The dust storm that turned day into night Black Sunday April 14, 1935. The dust storm that turned day into night. Many believed the world was coming to an end.
June 4, 1937 at Goodwell, Oklahoma
A black blizzard over Prowers Co., Colorado, 1937
Dust storm approaching Elkhart, Kansas in May, 1937
“Dust lay two feet deep in ripply waves across the parlor floor, dust blanketed the cookstove, the icebox, the kitchen chairs, everything deep in dust.” Karen Hesse Out of the Dust
Abandoned farm in the Dust Bowl area, Oklahoma
Dust is too much for this farmer's son in Cimarron County, Oklahoma.
Red Cross volunteers wearing dust masks, Liberal, Kansas.
Dust Bowl farmer raising fence to keep it from being buried under drifting sand. Cimarron County, Oklahoma
South Carolina Curriculum Standards Social Studies I.5.2.8 Explain the effect of the Great Depression on the United States. Internet Resources: http://www.ptsi.net/user/museum/dustbowl.html http://www.humanities-interactive.org/texas/dustbowl/ http://www.weru.ksu.edu/new_weru/multimedia/dustbowl/dustbowlpics.html