Where To Stream American Experience Season 10 Episode 9
Surviving the Dust Bowl
- Aired March 2, 1998
- 60 Min
- Rated 9.0
- Number 39 Of 108 Rated Episodes
In 1931 the rains stopped and the "black blizzards" began. Powerful dust storms carrying millions of tons of stinging, blinding black dirt swept across the Southern Plains — the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma, western Kansas, and the eastern portions of Colorado and New Mexico. Topsoil that had taken a thousand years per inch to build suddenly blew away in only minutes. One journalist traveling through the devastated region dubbed it the "Dust Bowl." This episode is the remarkable story of...