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Timeline

~1929~

Great Depression begins

Picture of people selling apples in the Great Depression, 1929, History

~1930~

Drought

Texan farm destroyed after the drought, 1930, The History Place

~1931-1935~

Over-farming the land

Farmers cultivating cotton feilds in Texas, 1932, The Tulia Herald

~1934~

Dust storms begin

Video of a dust storm hitting the Plains on May 11, 1934, Youtube

~1935~

Black Sunday

Thought to be one of the worst dust storms of the time, April 14 1935, Armstrong Books

~1936~

Okies settle in migrant camps

Okies in a migrant camp, 1936, National Geographic

~1937-1938~

Okie migration peaks

Okies stalled in the desert, 1937, History by Zim

~1938~

Conserving the land

Worker replanting trees after Rosevelt's FDR project, which helped bring the people out of poverty, 1938, Montana Conservation Corps

~1939~

Rainfall returns

Car buried in dust after it settled; the Dust Bowl is fainally over, 1939, Modern American Poetry

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