In Spring of 1936, massive dust storms from the Great Plains suddenly and unexpectedly invaded the farmlands of southwestern Iowa, carrying with them the red, wind-eroded topsoil of Texas and Oklahoma. Standing at the edge of his cornfield, a Swedish tenant farmer and his young daughter gazed in dismay as a horizon-hugging cloud swiftly approached their home, pushed along by a howling straight-line wind. Both father and daughter were aware of the devastation that Dust Bowl conditions had brought to their family relatives in Kansas... and now, the nightmare was about to come crashing down on...
In Spring of 1936, massive dust storms from the Great Plains suddenly and unexpectedly invaded the farmlands of southwestern Iowa, carrying with them ...