Dust Bowl

A farmer and his two sons during a dust storm; Cimarron County, Oklahoma, 1936.

The Dust Bowl was a period of severe dust storms and droughts causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian and also the Chinese area prairie lands from 1930 to 1938 and also in some parts through the 1940s. They caused devastating damage to many people's lives. It was caused because the soil blew away into the air and reduced visibility to a few feet.