Douglas Hurt's The Dust Bowl

Part I of Essay
The Dust Bowl, written by R. Douglas Hurt explores the Dust Bowl and the effects it had on the societies who dealt with it. The Dust Bowl is a vast area stretching across the Great Plains from Oklahoma to Colorado. Hurt includes precise locations of specific dust storms t ....

Part II of Essay
.... their towns. The dust storms were often times massive and destroyed crops, houses and the lives of anyone living near it. By mid March, the storms had become commonplace in Amarillo and Dodge City. Residents began to accept them as a part of daily life. On April 10, 1935, a dust storm rolled through Texas and Oklahoma and on to Kansas. The storm lasted for over twenty-four hours, and set a record for intensity and duration of a storm. This storm came four days before the dreadful “black blizzard” that hit Amarillo, Texas on April 14 ....