Women of Dust and Wind: Women of the Dust Bowl

Description

During the Dust Bowl and Great Depression, the women of the home—wives and mothers—worked to help their family survive. Searching for food and learning to live on little money, the struggled to feed their families. But most of all, the fought the dust and wind. Dirt seeped into any crevice of the house. Dust blew through the cracks of the windows. Dust covered the babies’ mouths forcing them to cough up black soil in the mornings.

In addition, the women fought against grasshoppers which threatened their gardens, the paint on their house, and any item where they landed.

Eventually, it was the mother who kept the children safe and healthy. It was the wife who held up her husband and coaxed him to continue.

There were the hands and hearts that helped the family survive.