Period of severe dust storms in North America

Dust bowl migrants in the American imagination / Charles J. Shindo.

Dust Bowl : the southern Plains in the 1930s / Donald Worster.

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Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939

Works from the collections

Dust bowl migrants in the American imagination / Charles J. Shindo.

Dust Bowl : the southern Plains in the 1930s / Donald Worster.