The events leading to the Dust Bowl started with the Homestead ... Black Sunday alone was such a strong storm that lawmakers in Washington, D.C. started paying attention, leading to significant ...

During the Great Depression, the United States experienced years of massive dust storms that would become known as the Dust Bowl era. In the spring of 1934, the effects of a large dust storm were felt ...

The 1935 tragedy during a years-long drought compounded by a lack of soil conservation efforts "should be remembered as the ...

On April 14, 1935, a wall of dust, hundreds of feet high, descended on farms and homes in the Great Plains. People drove as fast as they could to get away from the black clouds or covered their faces, ...

A great dust cloud passed through Oklahoma on this Sunday in 1935. Woody Guthrie said, "We thought it was our doom." ...