this event was devastating to many farmers across the plains states during the Great Depression.
In 1935, there were a series of dust storms across the Midwest. Clouds of dust flew over fields and farms, destroying crops, and killing cattle. Many farmers were ruined and left their homes to look for a new life. Many went to California to work as fruit-pickers in the orchards.
1930s.
Dust bowl
The dirty thirties
Dust Bowl
Dust Bowl
Most livestock died of starvation during the Dust Bowl in the 1930s.
Lowering the land.
Lowering the land.
Kansas
Lowering the land.
The dust bowl was in the 1930s in the central part of the US, known as the High Plains. For more about the Dust Bowl, you can read The Facts About the Dust Bowl at http://history.knoji.com/facts-about-the-dust-bowl/
It was a terrible decade with the dust bowl and the great depression.