Dirty Days – The Dust Bowl

The Dust Bowl is one of the worst man-made ecologic disasters in human history. As the Depression took hold, many Americans began fleeing the overcrowded cities of the East Coast looking for a lucrative future in farming. The American Dream. But what awaited them was far more sinister. In this episode, Robin takes a look at the decade that literally changed the American landscape: The Dirty Thirties.

Sources

History.com
PBS
National Geographic

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