dust bowl story

8:00 The day broke with a clear, clean The Great Plains, a blue-skied morning Likes of which hadn't been seen in months. Farm families in northwestern Kansas Shook off their dust blues and looked Forward to a day of life the way it used to Be, back when people weren't afraid to visit Neighbors or go to 4-H meetings for fear of Getting caught in a dust storm. Many people packed into the Clapboard churches scattered …

…had a farm.tomorrow Kansas housewives would sweep land from Nebraska and Oklahoma from their homes. And tomorrow, Robert Geiger, a correspondent for the Washington Evening Star, would name this area the Dust Bowl. Many would pack up and leave, but many more would hang on, convinced that better times were ahead. "One more good rain, and we're back in business," they would tell each other. The rains did not come for another five years.