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Title
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Do You Remember? A Time of Dust Remembered
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Description
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Photo of sample dust storm and description of Kansas City dust storms blocking nearly all sunlight, stopping work and traffic.
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Date
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1976-04-29
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Violence in Wind: Gusts up to 70 Miles an Hour Rip through the Kansas City Area
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Description
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Photos and article about the winds in Kansas City, up to 70 miles per hour, strong enough to knock down pedestrians and power lines, responsible for the fire at a lumber yard killing Kansas City's police chief, and whipping up clouds of dust from the Kansas River "reminiscent of the dust storms of the early 1930s."
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Date
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1953-03-22
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Denbigh Station and Experimental Forest
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Description
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Article on an experimental forest project in North Dakota operated by the Civilian Conservation Corps and the Works Progress Administration to look for solutions to the problems caused by drought and soil erosion during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. Created in 1930, Denbigh Station and Experimental Forest in McHenry County, North Dakota, station personnel studied tree varieties and soil conservation techniques to determine which would be most suitable to the plains states. The article describes creation of and work done at Denbigh, and how the forest is still used today as a seed source and has become an important habitat for wildlife.
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Sunny Kansas
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Description
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Photo, llustrations, and article about "the grand State of Kansas" and its climate (including droughts and strong winds, etc.), flora and fauna, and culture and economy.
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Date
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1904-07
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Dust Storms: Part Two, 1861-1880
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Description
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Second of a three-part series of articles on dust storms in Kansas, including those affecting the Kansas City area from 1861 to 1880. Details of the dust storms of 1860 and 1880 with a reprint of an article from the Kansas City Journal, March 28, 1880 about a "sand storm."
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Date
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1946-08
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Dust Storms: Part Three, 1881-1900
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Description
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Third of a three-part series of articles on dust storms in Kansas, including those affecting the Kansas City area from 1881 to 1900.
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Date
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1946-11
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Dust Storms: Part One, 1850-1860
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Description
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First of a three-part series of articles on dust storms in Kansas, including those affecting the Kansas City area from 1850 to 1860. Page 132: "Within the Kansas area the most explicit record of early dust storms was the journal of Isaac McCoy covering his experiences on an expedition surveying the Delaware Indian reservation boundary during October and November, 1830."
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Date
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1946-05
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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The Dust Is Blowing in Kansas
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Description
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Photos and article about the problems in eastern Kansas, western Missouri, and other states of the Great Plains associated with droughts, heat waves, and floods on farming and livestock industries, etc. Discussion on possible federal government aid to the region with reviews of drought in the 1930s and 1950s and the 1951 flood, etc.
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Date
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1954-08-09
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
