But at the start of the 1900s, offers of cheap public land attracted farmers to the ... during the 1930s on the southern Plains. Accompanying the series is The Dust Bowl: An Illustrated History ...

Severe drought hits the Midwestern and Southern Plains. As the crops die ... and workers are given a 25 percent raise. Great dust storms spread from the Dust Bowl area. The drought is the ...

But even so, in 2020, new research found that the heat waves which caused the dust bowl were more than ... thousands of farmers moved to the Great Plains, a stretch of arid land once covered ...