During the 1930s, drought and economic depression ... of families simply abandoned their farms altogether. In 1929, an unprecedented decade of drought, known as the Dust Bowl, hits parts of ...

Roosevelt, was desperately trying to recover from the shock of the Great Depression ... American’s fate was closely tied to that of Dust Bowl farmers. One of these was Hugh Hammond Bennett ...

The Dust Bowl, a two-part, four-hour documentary ... into wheat fields at an unprecedented rate. In 1930, with the Great Depression underway, wheat prices collapsed. Rather than follow the ...

Images of the Great ... dust bowl. Soon after, the town renamed itself to Gene Autry, Oklahoma. (Check out Money Digest's 10 best tips for investing in stocks as a beginner.) During the Great ...

Two-thirds of Saskatchewan families received relief ... emerged from the prairie dust during the darkest days of the Great Depression. In 1932, James Shaver Woodsworth became the first leader ...