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Air and water pollution are deadly. Many factors led to the Dust Bowl. Since their fathers and grandfathers had settled there in the 1870s, there had been dry periods interspersed with times of sufficient rainfall. 585 likes. The Dust Bowl was a natural disaster that devastated the Midwest in the 1930s. Abandoned farmstead in the Dust Bowl region of Oklahoma, showing the effects of wind erosion, 1937. It was the worst drought in North America in 1,000 years. Drought was nothing new to the farmers of western Kansas. When winds blew, they raised enormous clouds of dust. Dust Bowl, section of the Great Plains of the United States that extended over southeastern Colorado, southwestern Kansas, the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma, and northeastern New Mexico. But in Kansas and in the nation we are, today facing even greater conservation challenges. Dust Bowl Jamboree fan, Patti Mathis has generously donated this handsome new fiddle signed by Country Music Hall of Fame Member Charlie Daniels ! Dust Bowl Jamboree, North Kansas City, Missouri. Nationwide and statewide, they are increasing. Vintage Car Show and Bluegrass Festival.

Jump to. But the drought that descended on the Central Plains in 1931 was more severe than most could remember. All … The fiddle will be auctioned off during the Dust Bowl Jamboree Concert on September 7. Dust Bowl History Black Sunday, April 14, 1935, Dodge City, Kansas New Dust Bowl Oral History Project, Ford County Historical Society, Dodge City, KS funding provided by the Kansas Humanities Council. Dust Bowl. As for the dust-bowl problems of the 1930's, there is little chance that they will return.
Lake Erie is now a dead lake. 1  Unsustainable farming practices worsened the drought’s effect, killing the crops that kept the soil in place.