Abandoned farm of the western Panhandle, Cimmaron [i.e. Cimarron] County, Oklahoma. In 1934 and again in 1936 drought conditions in the Great Plains became so severe that it was necessary for the federal government to take steps to rescue dying…
Abandoned farm on the high plains, Texas County, Oklahoma. "The record of the Great Plains is to a great extent a record of settlement and abandonment." J. Russell Smith
A postcard showing a western Kansas rabbit drive. Areas of the state suffered from an over abundance of rabbits which were destroying pastures. Pens were built and residents gathered to drive the rabbits through the fields into the pens where the…