This photo, taken April 14, 1935, in Western Kansas, shows people out on a rabbit hunt when they were overtaken by a dust storm. The "Dust Bowl" days in Kansas had a devastating effect on the state's economy.
Thanks to Aliessia for the card.
"The Dust Bowl was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s; severe drought and a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent the aeolian processes caused the phenomenon."
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