Dust Bowl Archives - Baca County History

The term ground zero is usually associated with an explosion and describes the location closest to a detonation. In the case of […]

Dust Bowl Poems(1930s) by Nellie Grover Bamber

This post is a true pleasure. There are some little things to look for. The image of Grandma Bamber printed on an […]

As the dust storms increased many of the farm families and a few of the town residents had to pull up […]

A couple years ago, Kathy pushed out a series in the Plainsman Herald by John Havens. We are going to replay that […]

A couple years ago, Kathy pushed out a series in the Plainsman Herald by John Havens. We are going to replay that […]

A couple years ago, Kathy pushed out a series in the Plainsman Herald by John Havens. We are going to replay that […]

I have been collecting artifacts of the Dust Bowl as it relates to Baca County for awhile. My focus is compiling a […]

The Dust Bowl Days: by George Chatham As I shared in an earlier post the Elmer & Lela Chatham family left Baca […]

Posted with permission of Gloria Jean. Original article appeared in the Huckaby Times (Cousin Newsletter), April 2004 On Sunday April 14th, 1935, […]

Dust Bowl noun, The region in the South Central U.S that suffered from dust storms. Associated Press staff writer Robert Geiger was […]