RIGHT: In the Dust Bowl House at Cimarron Heritage Center in Boise City, Okla., newspaper pages hang on walls to show what people did to try to prevent dust from entering their homes.

In this March 29, 1937 photo, the desolation of the Dust Bowl is graphically illustrated by these rippling dunes banked against a fence, farm home, barn and windmill in Guymon, Oklahoma.

The Dust Bowl of the 1930s brought more than hard times to America’s Heartland and Southwest. Known as ‘black blizzards,’ dust storms moved across the United States with devastati… ...

"The Dust Bowl belongs on the list of the top three, four, or five environmental catastrophes in world history," according to historian Donald Worster of the University of Kansas.

Surviving the Dust Bowl is the remarkable story of the determined people who clung to their homes and way of life, enduring drought, dust, disease — even death — for nearly a decade.

Ken Burns' brilliant documentary, "The Dust Bowl," brings to life the terrifying tale of what life in the epic ecological disaster felt like for those who lived through it.

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 ...

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.

During the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, millions of desperate Americans abandoned their homes, farms and businesses to look for work elsewhere.

The Wizard of Oz and Kansas have been inseparable since farm girl Dorothy Gale first skipped down the yellow brick road. But a Dust Bowl 1930s image may also hold Kansas back from what it wants to be.