I remember stuffing rags along the windows and doors to keep dust out. The dust bowl winds began in 1932 but the Dust Bowl got its … 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. 583 likes. The Dust Bowl was a decade-long catastrophe that swept up 100 million acres of topsoil in Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, Colorado and New Mexico. 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 1930s were a trying time for the nation. What Every Small Town In Kansas Had In The 1930s. This story map was created with the Story Map Journal application in ArcGIS Online. Dust bowl history in Kansas, the 1930s, including Black Sunday, April 14, 1935. 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. Southwest Kansas and the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles were affected most by the Dust Bowl. 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. Also, of my mother (three sons) making our underwear and shirts from feed sacks and flour sacks. Lots of dust storms. Since their fathers and grandfathers had settled there in the 1870s, there had been dry periods interspersed with times of sufficient rainfall. 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. At … At its worst, the Dust Bowl covered about 100 million acres in the Southern Plains, an area roughly the size of Pennsylvania. Vintage Car Show and Bluegrass Festival Photograph of the winds of a dust bowl that have piled up large drifts of soil against this farmer's barn near Liberal, Kansas. Abandoned farmstead in the Dust Bowl region of Oklahoma, showing the effects of wind erosion, 1937. Dust Bowl Drought was nothing new to the farmers of western Kansas. Dust Bowl Jamboree, North Kansas City, Missouri. It Was A Simpler Time.

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.