Life in the Dust Bowl

The Picture the Past series looks at the many kinds of communities in America’s past. Each book describes what made each community different and what children and adults did each day. Life in the Dust Bowl In this book, discover what life was like on the Great Plains in the 1930s. Learn how dry weather and wind storms created the Dust Bowl. Travel with families who left their farms and moved to California. Visit camps where the families stayed until they built new homes. Then use a recipe to make a popular food from the timemeat stew!