1. The Dust Bowl

2. “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

3. One of the pioneer women of the Oklahoma panhandle Dust Bowl

4. Dust Bowl farmers of west Texas in town

5. “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

6. Black Sunday April 14, 1935. The dust storm that turned day into night
Black Sunday April 14, The dust storm that turned day into night. Many believed the world was coming to an end.

7. June 4, 1937 at Goodwell, Oklahoma

8. A black blizzard over Prowers Co., Colorado, 1937

9. Dust storm approaching Elkhart, Kansas in May, 1937

10. “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

11. Abandoned farm in the Dust Bowl area, Oklahoma

12. Dust is too much for this farmer's son in Cimarron County, Oklahoma.

13. Red Cross volunteers wearing dust masks, Liberal, Kansas.

14. Dust Bowl farmer raising fence to keep it from being buried under drifting sand. Cimarron County, Oklahoma

15. South Carolina Curriculum Standards
Social Studies I.5.2.8
Explain the effect of the Great Depression on the United States.
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