HOLDREGE — People and places from the Great Depression-Dust Bowl years remain timeless in 80,000 black-and-white photographs taken by some of America’s best photographers of the 1930s. The federal ...

In the 1930s, the Great Plains in the American South faced a financial and environmental catastrophe spurred by years of drought and reckless farming practices. Already reeling from the Great ...

1. In “The Grapes of Wrath,” John Steinbeck captures the suffocating dust storms and drought that plagued the Great Plains during the 1930s. “All day the dust sifted down from the sky, and the next ...

The 1930s Dust Bowl, or “Dirty Thirties,” was an environmental and economic catastrophe caused by severe drought combined ...

Many think that the dust bowl was only on the Great Plains. It was here. Vegetation withered on the fields and could not hold soil down. Long-time residents remember how it was in the 1930s when they ...