dust storms

Photographs and simple text explain how wind can stir sand, dust, or topsoil into furious clouds that travel hundreds of miles across deserts, prairies, and oceans.

Illustrated text, letters, and diary excerpts follow the fictional Buckler family during the Great Depression, as they leave Oklahoma, because of drought and duststorms, and move to California to find work and a better life.

In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression.

In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression.

In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression.

Great-grandma Annie reminisces about life on her family's Oklahoma farm during the terrible drought of the 1930s when the region was known as the "Dust Bowl.".

Rose keeps a journal of her family's difficult times on their farm during the days of the Dust Bowl in 1935.

As a great wall of dust moves across their drought-stricken farm, a family's distress is relieved by a young man called Drylongso, who literally blows into their lives with the storm.

Examines the causes of the Dust Bowl, discusses its effects, and provides primary source quotes and photographs.