“Oklahoma panhandle during days of the Dust Bowl from 1930 through 1939.” (DBS-2023-12-04-001i)

From the Human Events Collection by Glenn Kelly

“The Dust Bowl Series”

Not all farm life is tranquil and productive. The Dust Bowl was the result of a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s. The phenomenon was caused by a combination of natural factors (severe drought) and human-made factors: a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent wind erosion, most notably the destruction of the natural topsoil by settlers in the region. The drought came in three waves: 1934, 1936, and 1939–1940, but some regions of the High Plains experienced drought conditions for as long as eight years. Even worse, the depression years added to the misery.

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