Dust Bowl History Black Sunday, April 14, 1935, Dodge City, Kansas New Dust Bowl Oral History Project, Ford County Historical Society, Dodge City, KS funding provided by the Kansas Humanities Council.

Lake Erie is now a dead lake.

Abandoned farmstead in the Dust Bowl region of Oklahoma, showing the effects of wind erosion, 1937. 585 likes. Jump to. Dust Bowl Jamboree, North Kansas City, Missouri. Drought was nothing new to the farmers of western Kansas. All … Nationwide and statewide, they are increasing. Dust Bowl. Since their fathers and grandfathers had settled there in the 1870s, there had been dry periods interspersed with times of sufficient rainfall. But in Kansas and in the nation we are, today facing even greater conservation challenges. The Dust Bowl, Kansas State University [lots of photographs] Dust Bowl References, KSU Dust Bowl , wikipedia ; Dust Storms, 1850-1860, James Malin When winds blew, they raised enormous clouds of dust. 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. It was the worst drought in North America in 1,000 years.

The Dust Bowl was a natural disaster that devastated the Midwest in the 1930s. Dust Bowl Jamboree fan, Patti Mathis has generously donated this handsome new fiddle signed by Country Music Hall of Fame Member Charlie Daniels !
The fiddle will be auctioned off during the Dust Bowl Jamboree Concert on September 7. Air and water pollution are deadly.


1  Unsustainable farming practices worsened the drought’s effect, killing the crops that kept the soil in place. Many factors led to the Dust Bowl. As for the dust-bowl problems of the 1930's, there is little chance that they will return. Vintage Car Show and Bluegrass Festival.