The Dust Bowl wasn’t just a drought; it was a man-made disaster. Massive dust storms forced millions to migrate and forever changed farming in America.

The storms were driven by winds in excess of 70 mph across a vast stretch of dry fields and prairie from New Mexico and western Texas. In Kansas, more than 70 vehicles crashed in extremely low ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - The Kansas Dust Bowl scarred part of the prairie and damaged agricultural land in the 1930s. On Wednesday Humanities Kansas hosted an event remembering the Kansas Dust Bowl. The ...

1. In “The Grapes of Wrath,” John Steinbeck captures the suffocating dust storms and drought that plagued the Great Plains during the 1930s. “All day the dust sifted down from the sky, and the next ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Apr. 13—CLAYTON — On April 14, 1935, a wall of dust, hundreds of feet high, descended on farms and homes in the Great Plains.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dust storms in the Borderland are nothing new, but the severity of the weather events and their frequency have worsened, ...