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Arthur Rothstein's Farmer and Sons Walking in the Face of a Dust Storm, a Resettlement Administration photograph taken in Cimarron County, Oklahoma, in April 1936. The Dust Bowl was the result of a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s.
The photo shows a farmer and his two sons running from the dust to a dilapidated shed past fence posts nearly submerged in dust. While passing through Oklahoma Rothstein spotted the farmer Arthur Coble (1896–1956), a native of Sailor Springs, Illinois , and his two young sons, Milton Garth Coble (1930–1973) and Darrel Arthur Coble (1933 ...
The Oklahoma Panhandle (formerly called No Man's Land, the Public Land Strip, the Neutral Strip, or Cimarron Territory) is a salient in the extreme northwestern region of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Its constituent counties are, from west to east, Cimarron County , Texas County and Beaver County .
The Dust Bowl ravaged the Oklahoma Panhandle and nearby areas in the 1930s. Short-term drought and long-term poor agricultural practices led to the Dust Bowl when massive dust storms blew away the soil from large tracts of arable land and deposited it on nearby farms or even far-distant locations. The resulting crop failures forced many small ...
The storm first hit the Oklahoma panhandle and northwestern Oklahoma and moved south for the day. [1] It hit Beaver, Oklahoma around 4 p.m., Boise City around 5:15, and Amarillo, Texas, at 7:20. [1] The conditions were the most severe in the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles, but the storm's effects were also felt in surrounding areas. [1]
This is a photo of pasture land in the Oklahoma Panhandle where the bodies of two Kansas women were found buried April 14. The photo was included in search warrant records filed with the Texas ...
Area affected by the Dust Bowl between 1935 and 1938. Boise City was founded in 1908 by developers J. E. Stanley, A. J. Kline, and W. T. Douglas (all doing business as the Southwestern Immigration and Development Company of Guthrie, Oklahoma) who published and distributed brochures promoting the town as an elegant, tree-lined city with paved streets, numerous businesses, railroad service, and ...
Ford Allen Bradshaw (January 5, 1906 – March 3, 1934) was an American bank robber and Depression-era outlaw. He was a rival of fellow Sooner, Oklahoma, bandit Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd, and although never as nationally well known as Floyd, Bradshaw's small town bank raids far exceeded those of Floyd during his criminal career.