DISQUS

Tom · 1 year ago

I just finished a book called, The Worst Hard Time, that dealt with this same place and time period. I believe that the History Channel used it as source material. A very good book that discribed the horrors of the Dust Bowl and the history leading up to it.

dick · 1 year ago

wow that looks like it would suck badd

cara · 1 year ago

my dad loves your show an i am doing a news paper on the dust bowl and saw your pictures and thought they were amazing!!! great job!!

Deborah Green · 1 year ago

Saw Black Blizzard on the History Channel, which was incredible. I knew about the importance of topsoil and how long it takes to form just a shallow depth of it. I didn't realize the prairie's topsoil blew to New York and the rest of the East Coast. As the show said, only then did Roosevelt send the photographers like Dorothea Lange out to document the plight of the farmers and people moving west.

The September issue of National Geographic has a big article on topsoil also Our Good Earth. It is a little appreciated topic.

Thanks.

Richard · 1 year ago

Did the A- bomb testing's cause these clouds? Inquiring minds want to know? Strontium 90 was a fallout product from a-bomb testing from 1931,1932
research at "Forensic Science International" volume 99 issue 1 pg 47.

jkratz1 · 1 year ago

Ummm...there was no atomic bomb testing in 1931 or 1932. The first controlled nuclear reaction happened in Chicago in 1942. The first atomic explosion happened in 1945 in New Mexico.

In fact the paper you cite says that Strontium-90 was *not* found in the bone samples from 1931/32.

It was a dust storm pure and simple.