The Dust Bowl was the nickname given to America’s drought-afflicted Southern. The area suffered severe dust storms during the driest period in the history of the nation. During the 1930s, high winds and choking dust was sweeping the area from Texas to Nebraska. People and livestock were killed, and the crops were failing.
Abandoned Farm With Equipment That Destroyed the Naturally Rich Grazing Land at Mills, New Mexico. Photo By Granger/Shutterstock
The Dust Bowl only made the already crushing economy even worse. It further impacted the Great Depression and drove more and more farming families on migration, in desperate search of work and better living conditions. The photos alone are incredible, and you can only wonder how life back then was really like. It seems as though the dust itself was only a portion of the suffering.