Dust Bowl conditions fomented an exodus of the displaced from the Texas Panhandle, Oklahoma Panhandle, and the surrounding Great Plains to adjacent regions. More than 500,000 Americans were left homeless.

The Dust Bowl period that occurred during the drought years of the 1930s represents a remarkable era in the settlement history of the West. From a climatic perspective, the 1930s drought is still considered to be the most severe on record for many parts of the Great Plains.

By 1934, it had turned the Great Plains into a desert that came to be known as the Dust Bowl. In Oklahoma, the Panhandle area was hit hardest by the drought. Listen to Flora Robertson talk about her experience in the Dust Bowl.

2009年10月27日 · Roughly 2.5 million people left the Dust Bowl states—Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma—during the 1930s. It was one of the largest migrations in American history.

The lore of the Dust Bowl still circulates around the Oklahoma image as fiercely as the dust storms that blew through its Panhandle. Sunday, April 14, 1935, started as a clear day in Guymon, Oklahoma.

The Dust Bowl Results of a Dust Storm, Oklahoma, 1936. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives. Between 1930 and 1940, the southwestern Great Plains region of the United States suffered a severe drought.

2024年12月19日 · Dust Bowl, name for both the drought period in the Great Plains that lasted from 1930 to 1936 and the section of the Great Plains of the United States that extended over southeastern Colorado, southwestern Kansas, the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma, and northeastern New Mexico.

By 1934, seventy-five percent of the United States suffered unusually dry conditions. The term “Dust Bowl” was coined to describe the parched, barren landscape of the Southern Plains, and the Oklahoma Panhandle in particular became a No Man’s Land of despair—ground zero in this great American tragedy—as a way of life seemed to come to an end.

2020年9月11日 · The Dust Bowl refers to a period of severe dust storms that occurred during the 1930s, primarily affecting the Great Plains region of the United States, including parts of Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico.

2021年4月8日 · The Dust Bowl covered an area where five states converged—Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico—but most severely impacted those in the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles. Several factors contributed to the series of debilitating dust storms.