49 Remastered Photos Texas History Dust Bowl Great Depression Hard Times Poverty

[@jerryshepherd1645]

Thank you for sharing your hard work putting this together. You know it would not hurt to show this in schools to day.

[@Cutter-jx3xj]

My granny used to say that there was a jack rabbit, but there were a lot of armadillos Hoover Hogs) but even they became scarce as well as most birds, even rattlesnakes. When u had kids to feed, anything was fair game. If you have ever been around someone who had struggled thru the great depression, you learned that they let absolutely nothing go to waste

[@historystuff5516]

Exactly!

[@Knife_Collector]

When your land, then your life, and then your hope, blows away in the wind, there's not much left except despair. You load what's left of your dreams in a vehicle, and head off to where prospects are not much better than what you left. I wonder how any of the people ever thought, that almost a century later, people would be looking at their pictures, and wondering who they were, and what they lives were like, and what happened afterwards as time passed by?

[@historystuff5516]

So very true. And it happened very recently in our history.

[@gnolan4281]

It's depressing and humbling and makes me think of John Steinbeck's "Grapes of Wrath". Hard working, honest folk poured their hearts into the land by everything that is sacred. Mother nature dried it up and blew it away right before their very eyes. They were left just standing there broke. You can see the years of honest toil in their bodies, on their faces and the still hopeful glimmer of youth in the young ones. I do take comfort from one thing though. They're not living skeletons on the verge of dying. I've seen photos of human beings in different countries who are just barely alive for lack of food. We seethe at the fact that the universe was indifferent to their noblest efforts.