but a years-long drought would transform the Great Plains into a Dustbowl, intensifying the suffering of those who sought work there. The Stock Market Crash may have sparked the Great Depression ...

It signaled the beginning of the Great Depression. Canada was one of the ... And in 1929, an unprecedented decade of drought set in on parts of the prairies. The once-lush fields dried up and ...

At the height of the Great Depression, more than a quarter million ... and lived through ten years of drought, dust, disease and death. The unbounded optimism of the Jazz Age and the shocking ...

During the 1930s, drought and economic depression forced prairie farmers to abandon their farms to find work in the cities. Pictured here, settlers leaving farms in the "dry belt" areas in ...