Soil blown by "dust bowl" winds piled up in large drifts near Liberal, Kansas Contributor Names Rothstein, Arthur, 1915-1985, photographer Created / Published 1936 Mar. The Dust Bowl was an area of drought and severe wind erosion in southwestern Kansas, southeastern Colorado, northeastern New Mexico, and the panhandles of Oklahoma and Texas during the 1930s. The Dust Bowl was a decade-long catastrophe that swept up 100 million acres of topsoil in Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, Colorado and New Mexico. I remember stuffing rags along the windows and doors to keep dust out. Vintage Car Show and Bluegrass Festival Abandoned farmstead in the Dust Bowl region of Oklahoma, showing the effects of wind erosion, 1937. Lots of dust storms.

583 likes. What Every Small Town In Kansas Had In The 1930s. The dust bowl winds began in 1932 but the Dust Bowl got its … Dust Bowl Drought was nothing new to the farmers of western Kansas. Dust bowl history in Kansas, the 1930s, including Black Sunday, April 14, 1935. Also, of my mother (three sons) making our underwear and shirts from feed sacks and flour sacks. Dust Bowl Jamboree, North Kansas City, Missouri. But the drought that descended on the Central Plains in 1931 was more severe than most could remember. Dust Bowl, section of the Great Plains of the United States that extended over southeastern Colorado, southwestern Kansas, the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma, and northeastern New Mexico. The Dust Bowl was the name given to an area of the Great Plains (southwestern Kansas, Oklahoma panhandle, Texas panhandle, northeastern New Mexico, and southeastern Colorado) that was devastated by nearly a decade of drought and soil erosion during the 1930s. Photograph of the winds of a dust bowl that have piled up large drifts of soil against this farmer's barn near Liberal, Kansas. This story map was created with the Story Map Journal application in ArcGIS Online. Dust storms also swept across the northern prairies of the United States and Canada, but the damage there couldn't compare to the devastation farther south. Dated 1936 Photograph of the winds of a dust bowl that have piled up large drifts of soil against this farmer's barn near Liberal, Kansas. Between the Great Depression, Dust Bowl and looming World War, nothing seemed for certain. At … Southwest Kansas and the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles were affected most by the Dust Bowl. The 1930s were a trying time for the nation. Since their fathers and grandfathers had settled there in the 1870s, there had been dry periods interspersed with times of sufficient rainfall. It Was A Simpler Time. At its worst, the Dust Bowl covered about 100 million acres in the Southern Plains, an area roughly the size of Pennsylvania.