Dust Bowl: Quick Facts

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Date	1930 - 1940

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The Dust Bowl's Worst Day: Black Sunday, Rolla, Kansas, April 14, 1935

Map of the United States with the historic Dust Bowl region highlighted in orange, centered over parts of the southern Plains, including sections of Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, and Colorado. The map serves as a locator, showing the Dust Bowl area in relation to the rest of the country.

American Progress, chromolithograph print, c. 1873

World War I poster showing soldiers charging over a snowy hill with rifles, above large red text reading They are giving all - Will you send them wheat? U.S. Food Administration.

Dust Bowl era: Oklahoma, 1937

A massive dust storm approaches a small town street in Alma, Nebraska, March 1935; dark clouds loom over buildings and people walking near a storefront.

Black Sunday: Kansas

A massive dust storm looms over a row of houses and a farmhouse on the edge of Stratford, Texas, with people visible in the foreground, April 1935.

Black Sunday: Colorado

Massive dust storm engulfs the landscape near Beaver, Oklahoma, on April 14, 1935, with a dirt road leading toward a dark, towering cloud of dust.

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