Dust Bowl Great Depression Facts. In one year during the great depression, it's estimated that 6,500 people were killed trying to hop on moving freight trains. The dust bowl was a series of periodic dust storms in the midwestern prairies that coincided with the great depression in america.
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There were more than 100 million acres of land affected by the dust bowl. After viewing these dust bowl pictures, have a look at 24 great depression photos that reveal the trauma experienced across america in the 1930s. •by 1934, because of years of repeated dust.
•by 1934, because of years of repeated dust.
By 1933, almost half of those banks. Facts about dust bowl 7: The huge dust storms that ravaged the area destroyed crops and made living there untenable. The land that was once full of crops was no longer arable.
