During the Great Depression, the United States experienced years of massive dust storms that would become known as the Dust Bowl era.

The 1935 tragedy during a years-long drought compounded by a lack of soil conservation efforts "should be remembered as the ...

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A great dust cloud passed through Oklahoma on this Sunday in 1935. Woody Guthrie said, "We thought it was our doom." ...

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The economic impact on the region was similarly profound. The Dust Bowl only compounded the hardships many were facing due to the Great Depression, and with crops failing and livestock dying, farmers ...

At a familygathering 45 years ago, he went into great ... depression our country has ever known, and it was the policy mistakes inWashington that led to it. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily ...