Dust Bowl Through the Lens

The Dust Bowl was a time of hardship and disaster. The worst ecological disaster in our nation’s history turned more than 100 million acres of fertile land almost completely to dust. Hundreds of thousands of people were forced to seek new homes and opportunities thousands of miles away, while millions more chose to stay and battle nature to save their land.  These terrible repercussions from the Dust Bowl contributed to the Great Depression, which impacted the entire country.