Dust Bowl Migrants, The 2.5 Million People Who Fled The Dust Bowl In The 1930s

All That's Interesting | 04.06.2026 08:00
In the 1930s, dust storms moved across the Plain states like a Biblical plague. Crops withered. Cattle choked on dust. And 2.5 million Dust Bowl migrants poured out of the American heartland in one of the largest mass migration events in U.S. history.