Dust storm blowing into Dodge City. The worst storm recorded was Black Sunday, April 15, 1935. Survivors talked of dust so thick it drifted like snow.
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Vintage postcard showing the dust storm in Garden City in 1935. (courtesy of Alvena King)
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Keeping the rails clear so trains could go through was one of the major tasks of rail road men in western Kansas during the dust storms. Here is a group sweeping the dust from the tracks, April, 13, 1935, Syracuse, Ks. (AP Photo)
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Vintage postcard showing the dust storm in Garden City in 1935. (courtesy of Alvena King)
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This is one of the most iconic photos from the Dust Bowl and is included in a collection of photos from the Stafford County Historical Genealogical Society and Museum
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Vintage postcard showing the dust storm in western Kansas in 1935. ( courtesy of Alvena King)
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Cattle in a Kansas dust storm in the 1930's.
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Clouds of dust roll over the northwest Kansas town of Zurich in the 1930's. The pictures are looking north across highway 18. (photo courtesy of Marion Renner)
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A photograph from the Kansas dust bowl in the 1930's.
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Vintage postcard showing the dust storm in western Kansas in 1935. (courtesy of Alvena King)
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A photograph from the Kansas dust bowl in the 1930's.
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Dust storm over western Kansas in 1935.
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A photograph from the Kansas dust bowl in the 1930's.
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A photograph from the Kansas dust bowl in the 1930's.
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W.E. Allbright, farmer, shown plowing, as dust blew, in an effort to check soil erosion by wind, March 31, 1935, Hutchinson, Ks. He adopted the plan of Gov. Alf Landon, who advocated plowing list rows at intervals to catch the drifting earth. Gov. Landon obtained a promise of federal aid in the dust-stricken area. (AP Photo)
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A farmer inspects his tractor and wheat drill, almost submerged in dust near Garden City, Kansas in March 1935. He planned to wait before digging out. (AP Photo)
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Vintage postcard showing the dust storm in Garden City in 1935. (courtesy of Alvena King)
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The early stages of rehabilitation of the Dust Bowl is evident through the shelter belt project which has restored fertility to vast areas ruined by soil erosion and dust storms of the mid 1930s. Here Russell Reitz, acting director of the U.S. Forest Service in Kansas, inspects a four-month-old tree in Edwards County, Kansas on July 4, 1944. The trees grew a foot a month, undisturbed by the terrifying reminders of the disastrous drifting of the fine rich soil of this region. Sand stretches to the horizon. (AP Photo)
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A failed bank in Kansas, May 1936. (AP Photo/Library of Congress, Arthur Rothstein, Farm Security Administration)
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This picture shows a barrier erected to keep back snowdrifts nearly covered by dust, Feb. 24, 1935, Colby, Ks. Piles of dust were scattered across Kansas and neighboring states when a storm subsided after blowing, while sun shone and the temperature was high. (AP Photo)
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This is a sector of the former dust bowl shown June 9, 1944, in Hopewell, Kansas, after the Shelterbelt Project of the U.S. Forest Service had been under way for some time, to restore the soil. (AP Photo)
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A forlorn figure, this cow forages for food in dust blown pastures, July 8, 1936, Ford County, Ks. A month of rainless days and soaring temperatures, which stood far above 100 degrees in many sectors of the drought area, have ruined pasturage and crops. The extreme dryness is graphically illustrated in this picture by the dust filling the air as breezes sweep over what was once pasturage. (AP Photo)
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Trainmen in Western Kansas are hoping for relief from a dust storm which made operation of trains difficult. This picture shows a second engine trying to extricate one stalled in a dust drift, April 4, 1935, Dodge City, Ks. (AP Photo)
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Across the Oklahoma Panhandle, on into Kansas and Colorado, this great dust cloud rolled, seeming to erase from the face of the Earth hundreds of small farm homes such as this one near Boise City, Oklahoma on April 16, 1935. (AP Photo)
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Clouds of dust roll over the northwest Kansas town of Zurich in the 1930's. The pictures are looking north across highway 18. (photo courtesy of Marion Renner)
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Clouds of dust roll over the northwest Kansas town of Zurich in the 1930's. The pictures are looking north across highway 18. (photo courtesy of Marion Renner)
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Clouds of dust roll over the northwest Kansas town of Zurich in the 1930's. The pictures are looking north across highway 18. (photo courtesy of Marion Renner)
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This is a picture of a dust storm rolling in from the west over Marquette, Kansas in 1937.
(photo courtesy of Fred Peterson)
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