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Her farm is nearly barren, her husband's health is failing, and each day brings a new onslaught of terrible storms, but in 1935, Catherine Henderson is resolved to stay in the dust bowl.
While the Dust Bowl affected much of the Midwest from 1931 to the end of the decade, ground zero for the devastation was Boise City, a small city in the Oklahoma Panhandle known as "no man's land." ...
Watch Chapter 1 of Surviving the Dust Bowl. Trailer Surviving the Dust Bowl: Teaser. The remarkable story of the determined people who clung to their homes and way of life, enduring drought, dust ...
The Dust Bowl celebrates the resilience of the farmers — most of them first-time landowners just trying to build a better life for their families — as much as he criticizes their methods.
MIDDLETOWN - When the wind picked up on a recent day, it brought a curtain of construction-related dust across Kings Highway East into the Kings Landing neighborhood, coating the outside of the ...
For some, the phrase “Dust Bowl” conjures a place: the Great Plains, but a Great Plains of abandoned homes, ruined lives, dead and dying crops and sand, sand, sand. For others, the phrase ...
Dear Tom, I’ve been reading the 1930s Dust Bowl. Is that area more habitable now? Phil & Susan Hagenah, Lake Geneva, Wis. Dear Phil and Susan, The Dust Bowl was the result of four droughts ...