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Go through the photographs of the young photographer named Arthur Rothstein about the Dust Bowl in April 1936.
7 cze 2022 · Historically, the Dust Bowl was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s. Severe drought and a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent the aeolian processes (wind erosion) caused the phenomenon.
30 lis 2016 · These Dust Bowl pictures from the 1930s reveal both the vast scope and total despair of the worst ecological disaster in American history.
23 paź 2017 · Dust buried farms and equipment, killed livestock, and caused human death and misery during the height of the Dust Bowl years. (Photo: NOAA Photo Library) A gigantic dust cloud engulfs a ranch in Boise City, Oklahoma, in 1935.
The Dust Bowl Beginning in 1934, states in the Great Plains were hit with severe drought, causing soil erosion and creating a series of massive dust storms. Combined with the financial crisis of the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl uprooted thousands of small farmers, many of whom headed west in search of a better life.
Step back in time and listen to Dust, Drought and Dreams Gone Dry: Oklahoma Women and the Dust Bowl Oral History Project.
Full documentary now streaming. The Dust Bowl chronicles the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history, in which the frenzied wheat boom of the Great Plow-Up, followed by a...