An award-winning author/illustrator brings the "Dirty Thirties" to life in this gripping graphic novel account of one of America's most catastrophic natural events.

An award-winning author/illustrator brings the "Dirty Thirties" to life in this gripping graphic novel account of one of America's most catastrophic natural events.

"A complete visual package." --Booklist, starred review

On a clear, warm Sunday, April 14, 1935, a wild wind whipped up millions upon millions specks of dust to form a duster--a savage storm--on America's high southern plains.

The sky turned black, sand-filled winds scoured the paint off houses and cars, trains derailed, and electricity coursed through the air. Sand and dirt fell like snow--people got lost in the gloom and suffocated... and that was just the beginning.

Don Brown brings the Dirty Thirties to life with lively artwork in this graphic novel of one of America's most catastrophic natural events: the Dust Bowl.