Table of Contents Setting the Stage 4 Surviving the Dust Bowl 6 Discover More 26 Websites 29 Glossary 30 Index 31 3
Setting the Stage THE OKLAHOMA OKLAHOMA SUN Sunday Issue 5 Families Flee As Another Dust Storm Blankets The Midwest Many Run Volume 12 July 12th 1935 At least three million families have fled their homes and farms on the Great Plains during what has been called the worst worldwide worldwide environmental environmental environmental disaster of the twentieth twentieth century The 1930s drought has forced many families to migrate to the West and to other states in search of food and fresh water This environmental environmental disaster is a result of a lack of precipitation precipitation and poor farming caused the soil to become dry and practices airborne Clearly the Midwest has become an uninhabitable dust 4 bowl which have
This Texas town looks like a ghost town as a wall of dust approaches during a dust storm in 1935 From the period of 1930 to 1939 dust storms devastated large parts of Kansas Oklahoma Texas Colorado and New Mexico The areas affected by the dust storms became known as the Dust Bowl Huge rolling walls of dust forced hundreds of thousands of families to hurriedly pack their belongings leaving their homes and farms behind to be buried under a blanket of dust 5
