Farmers here are faring no worse than in other parts of a nation beset by troubles on the family ... and Guymon became known as the hub of the dust bowl, ... The dust, he said, ruined clothes, ...

For some, the phrase “Dust Bowl” conjures a place: the Great Plains, but a Great Plains of abandoned homes, ruined lives, dead and dying crops and sand, sand, sand. For others, the phrase ...

He wrote, "Three little words — achingly familiar on a western farmer's tongue — rule life today in the dust bowl of the continent … 'if it rains.'" Sand piled up in front of a farm in ...

The Dust Bowl, a two-part, four-hour documentary series by Ken Burns, aired November 18 and 19, 2012 on PBS.The film chronicles the environmental catastrophe that, throughout the 1930s, destroyed ...

The Dust Bowl of the 1930s left an indelible mark on the Midwest and on history. It is the drought against which all others are measured. And it was a man-made disaster that could still offer lessons ...

Dust Bowl farmer with tractor and son near Cland, New Mexico, ca. June, 1938. Dr. Tugwell and a farmer of the Dust Bowl area in Texas Panhandle, ca. 1936. Leveling hummocks in the Dust Bowl. Coldwater ...

Drought, unemployment, unstable weather, ruined crops, decimated farmers: In retrospect, the devastating Dust Bowl of the Thirties sounds like a precursor to America in the Covid-19 era.

Farm with huge dust cloud approaching, dust storm near barn. April 15, 1935. Boise City, Oklahoma.AP350415017—AP1935 Ken Burns has a gift for making documentaries that are not at all about today ...

A new Mayborn Museum exhibit aims to shed new light on a historically murky subject, the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, with contemporary research that shows a more complicated picture ...

The resulting economic chaos had ruined farmers and threatened the businesses, ... Soil blown by Dust Bowl winds piled up in drifts on a farm near Liberal, Kan., in 1936.