The morning of Sunday April 14, 1935 was blue-skied and sunny. By the end of the day, people living in Colorado's plains would have seen the most devastating dust storm of their time.

April 14, 1935, dawned clear across the plains. After weeks of dust storms, one near the end of March destroying five million acres of wheat, people grateful to see the sun went outside to do ...

Many of the dust storms were severe, such as ones occurring on May 9, 1934, and March 3, 1935. But, no "dust blizzard" was as dramatic as the one on Sunday, April 14, 1935.

But the dust storms of 1934-35 — including those in March 1935 that blew into Washington, D.C., as hearings for the Soil Conservation Act were being held — moved Congress to act, according to ...

The 1935 tragedy during a years-long drought compounded by a lack of soil conservation efforts "should be remembered as the worst natural disaster of the time," Senate Resolution 14 states.

On April 14, 1935, the “Black Sunday” dust storm descended upon the central Plains and blotted out the sun. Although the “Black Sunday” storm was centered in the geographic middle of ...

Her farm is nearly barren, her husband's health is failing, and each day brings a new onslaught of terrible storms, but in 1935, Catherine Henderson is resolved to stay in the dust bowl.

Dust storms over Washington, D.C., 300 successive generations of fruit flies, and the world's oldest cemetery.

Afterward, there was dust everywhere — in food, in water, and in the lungs of animals and people. In 1932, the weather bureau reported 14 dust storms. The next year, the number climbed to 38.