In the middle of the Great Depression, the Great Plains experienced one of the worst environmental disasters up to that time; The Dust Bowl. The grassland did not take well to breaking the sod that the pioneers did to in in order to survive. After the natural grass was gone coupled with the lack of rain and the wind that blew across the flat lands, the dirt piled up into drifts and huge dust storms moved the land from one state to another.  This went on for weeks on end and drove many of the settlers on to "greener pastures."   Those who stayed tell horrifying stories of their survival.  

Dundy county was on the northern edge of the area effected, but the memory of it is mentioned in many family history stories that I read from that era.

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