Ken Burns: The Dust Bowl

Updated August 8, 2026

Rack Location: B170 Condition: Grade A Original Title: Ken Burns: The Dust Bowl -------------------------------- Sold as received. Items are inspected and tested for basic functionality where applicable. By placing a bid, you acknowledge and accept the item's condition as described, along with all associated risks. -------------------------------- Any MSRP or Presale Estimate values provided are for reference only and do not constitute a representation, warranty, or guarantee of value. Actual market price may differ substantially. -------------------------------- Images may include stock or generic photos provided for reference. Buyers must review all available images carefully. Photos of the actual item take precedence over any generic images or descriptions. ASIN: B007VYEF04 Product Description THE DUST BOWL chronicles the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history, when a frenzied wheat boom on the southern Plains, followed by a decade-long drought during the 1930s, nearly swept away the breadbasket of the nation. Menacing black blizzards killed farmers' crops and livestock, threatened the lives of their children, and forced thousands of desperate families to pick up and move somewhere else. Amazon.ca Ken Burns gets to the heart of the matter once again with The Dust Bowl. Using his established formula of photos, film footage, music, and interviews (including some very affecting recollections by those who lived through it), the documentarian details one of the grimmest periods in our history--"an epic of human pain and suffering" that, though relatively recent, is little known to most, other than by way of some Woody Guthrie songs and perhaps John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. When Oklahoma earned its statehood in 1907, it was a land of clear skies, fertile land, and enough rain to enable farmers to grow amber waves of grain that stretched for millions of acres. But with lying real estate agents crowing about the land's inexhaustible sustainability, the government urging more and more homesteaders to relocate there, and pretty much everyone ignoring the fact that the last decade of the 19th century had seen terrible droughts throughout the region of the Panhandle and beyond, the land was plowed far beyond its capacity for planting (the first of the documentary's two parts is entitled "The Big Plow Up"). And when the Depression arrived and the rain disappeared, the result was the worst human-made environmental catastrophe in U.S. History, a decade-long disaster of genuinely biblical proportions that featured famine, pestilence (having killed off the coyote population, farmers were visited by a frightful plague of jackrabbits), disease, wind and dust. For most of all, this is a story about dust--the "black blizzards" that blocked out the sun, carried away the topsoil, killed off livestock, seeped into people's homes, and found its way into their lungs, with deadly results. The photos and footage of the enormous, mile-high dust s

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