For almost 10 years, the Great Plains became a desert wasteland ... new research found that the heat waves which caused the dust bowl were more than twice as likely to occur as in the 1930s.

Three million people left their farms on the Great Plains during the drought and half a million migrated to other states, ...

Severe drought hits the Midwestern and Southern Plains. As the crops die ... and workers are given a 25 percent raise. Great dust storms spread from the Dust Bowl area. The drought is the ...

Wednesday’s freakish storm brought “Dust Bowl” conditions and gusts of more than 100 mph (161 kph) to parts of Plains, meteorologists said, reminiscent of the U.S. drought years of the 1930s.

An Aug. 10 article noted “the James River at Richmond is one foot below the zero mark, a record low reading for the ten years which measurements have been kept.” ...

Thousands of families simply abandoned their farms altogether. In 1929, an unprecedented decade of drought, known as the Dust Bowl, hits parts of the Canadian prairies. (National Archives of ...