The Dust Bowl Quotes

“Columbia University, idealistic, and so thoroughly a New Yorker that he had to learn how to drive a car in order to take the job. Prior”
― Ken Burns, The Dust Bowl: An Illustrated History

“IN MARCH 1936, ROBERT GEIGER, the Associated Press reporter who had given the Dust Bowl its”
― Ken Burns, The Dust Bowl: An Illustrated History

“750 years old, and during that time the Great Plains had suffered twenty droughts similar in severity to the one under way in the 1930s.)”
― Ken Burns, The Dust Bowl: An Illustrated History

“blew out 5 million acres of fields, and in the space of a day carried off twice as much dirt as had been excavated by the United States in the decade it took to dig the Panama Canal.”
― Ken Burns, The Dust Bowl: An Illustrated History

“27,000 businesses failed,”
― Ken Burns, The Dust Bowl: An Illustrated History