Out of the Dust

What caused the Dust Bowl? I stopped in my tracks, all my cattle were dead, lying on the ground.I took another step and was blinded. This is what the Dust Bowl was like for many people living in the southern plains.The Dust Bowl was a time period in the 1930’s when a strip of states were hit with countless dust storms that killed animals and people. What was the cause for all this? Well there are three main reasons, Overplowing farms, grass being destroyed by new farming technology, and drought

The Dust Bowl “The air is just full of dirt coming, literally, for hundreds of miles. It shifts into everything…” - A quote from the diary of Ann Marie Low describing the powerful dust storms that she experienced firsthand on her parents’ farm in the Great Plains. During the 1930s, the southern regions of the Great Plains became known as the Dust Bowl due to the severe droughts and dust storms that plagued this region experienced. Part of this occurrence can be attributed to the farmers because

The Dust Bowl lasted for eight years. The Dust Bowl made simple acts of life hard. Breathing, eating, drinking, and going outside were no longer simple tasks. Children had to wear dust masks to prevent from inhaling the dust. Women hung wet sheets up over the windows to try and stop dirt, to no avail. Farmers just watched as their crops were buried or even flew away. They had no choice in the matter. The Dust Bowl occurred in the 1930s and lasted roughly eight years. The main area of impact was

The Dust Bowl was a difficult time that caused people to lose their lives or to have difficult ones. People got diseases, others lost everything they had, and kids didn’t get to grow up normal. One of these kids was Timothy Johnson. One day, he and his brothers were out when their mom called them in, as she did a loud sound crashed through their trees. They heard the stories of many dust storms forming but Timothy hadn’t known how they would affect his life. They watched as dust clouded around

Even a small thing like dust can affect an entire country or continent, especially if there are tons of it. The 1930s, better known as “the dirty thirties,” was a hard time for many people because of the Great American Dust Bowl. The Great American Dust Bowl was one of the most catastrophic events in the world. Even though the Dust Bowl lasted four years, it felt like it could have lasted for more than a decade. Drought was caused by the “Prolonged misuse of grasslands in parts of Kansas, Colorado

The dust went into eyes, noses, and mouths. Breathing became very difficult. If you were eating a meal you could taste the dust. Those are a few of the reasons that made the physical aspect of the dust bowl much harder to live through. Next, the dust bowl began in the 1930s, during the great depression. The people living in the dust bowl had to shovel out of their houses because the dust covered their doors. “In the morning you could barely see the sun and by the end of the day you couldn’t see anything

chinchillas took dust baths? Well Nebraska, Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Colorado had took their own in the years of 1930’s. The Dust Bowl was a ten year dust storm that was a continuous downpour destroying millions of agriculture and lives of thousands of people. The Dust Bowl later called the “ Dirty Thirties” was caused by a continuous drought that happened a year before the Dust Bowl and the next ten years of it. Over the ten years of the Dust Bowl, the more time that grew the more dust and destruction

in a house constantly filled with dust in every crease and crevice. It would be a horrible place to live your everyday life. The Dust Bowl occurred in the 1930’s. It was a span of dust storms that lasted for around eight years. It was known as the “Dirty Thirties”. The dust bowl left an effect on everybody. There were many causes of the Dust Bowl and everyone, including the farmers, had their own ways to deal with it. For people to understand more about the dust bowl they need to know what caused

The Dust Bowl a tragic event that occurred during the 1930's primarily in the southern plains states. It hurt the lives of many people, and it was preventable. This event is relevant to what we are studying in class. The Dust Bowl occurred during The Great Depression in the 1930's. Which was an especially dreadful time for it to happen. Many people were impoverished or were on the brink of poverty. Making the man-made natural disaster all the more devastating. During the Great Depression farmers

0 1 Life in 1930's was hard for everyone. "Life had always been hard on those who lived in the Panhandle, a baron stretch of rock and red soil sandwiched between Texas, Kansas, New Mexico.” In Children of the Dust Bowl, Jerry Stanley notes that the people from Oklahoma where called Okies. "Every year they gambled with their lives, hoping for enough rain to get by (Stanley 3)." In the Great Depression, which started in 1929, the drought caused the crop prices to go down. Farmers from Texas, Oklahoma