I was born in what’s now the center — what was considered the center of the Panhandle, the Dust Bowl. I feel like that just being raised in that time period, I have a good history to remember.
Great dust storms spread from the Dust Bowl area. The drought is the worst ever in U.S. history, covering more than 75 percent of the country and affecting 27 states severely. Roosevelt signs the ...
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The XIT Museum has unveiled its latest permanent exhibit, offering visitors a unique opportunity to experience life during the Dust Bowl era. The exhibit features a simulator that recreates a ...
We live in villages, some of us in cities. In Vermont, even out in the sticks, we still live in so-called “towns.” Then there ...
Almost 100 years ago, desperate Dust Bowl refugees descended upon Kern County. They were White, Christian, spoke English, were willing to work and had broken no laws. But they were not welcomed.
Thousands of families simply abandoned their farms altogether. In 1929, an unprecedented decade of drought, known as the Dust Bowl, hits parts of the Canadian prairies. (National Archives of ...