A collection of first-person accounts of the trauma of the 1930s in the Heartland, assessed by historians from the distance of several decades. Section I offers

Housewives hung wet sheets and blankets over windows, struggling to seal every crack with gummed paper strips. A man avoided shaking hands, lest the static elec

A collection of letters and articles written by Caroline Henderson between 1908 and 1966 which provide insight into her life in the Great Plains, featuring both

The causes and results of the Dust Bowl and how the lessons learned are still used today. Presented in comic book format.

In the 1930's, great rolling walls of dust swept across the Great Plains. The storms buried crops, blinded animals, and suffocated children. It was a catastroph