Oral Histories exploring drought and the Dust Bowl Era
CLICK HERE for interviews conducted by USD 347 students
Earl Jensen, Dust Bowl Survivor (12/10/1920 – 8/12/2016)
Marty Gleason, Changing farming practices 1930s to now
Darrel Miller, Drought and the 1950s
CLICK HERE Oral for Oral Histories conducted by the Kinsley Library
Catherine Hattrup (10/25/1925 – 1/31/2020)
Jim Mowrey
Jake Schmidt (8/2/1931 – 1/9/2016)
Charles Schmitt
Dust Bowl Collection Resources includes:
Dust Bowl Connections Lesson Plan Ideas, Grades 1-6
Dust Bowl Connections Teacher Resources, Grades 1-6
(Includes Edwards County Oral History excerpts under Social Studies)
Dust Bowl and Depression Era Online Resources
Visit the Kinsley Library 2014 It Blew So Hard
online exhibit by clicking on links below:
Rabbit Drives Dust Pneumonia Surviving the Dirty Thirties
Shelter Belts Grasshopper Plagues Drought…a reoccurring problem
