![Dust storm sweeping over farmland](../images/lange/dust-storm-near-mills-new-mexico.jpg)
Dust storm near Mills, New Mexico
LCCN 2017760257
![Abandoned ranch house](../images/lange/plains-west-of-fresno.jpg)
On the plains west of Fresno, California. Family of seven from Oregon dairy ranch which they lost. “We tried to get too big, I guess. Milk cans are all that’s left of the dairy. Now pick bolls to make fifty cents to one dollar a day. We can’t work every day or maybe we could get by.” Rent for house without water or sanitation — six dollars per month. Plan next to pick fruit. “They say if you come to California, you always come back, but I’m willing to leave it.”
LCCN 2017771253
![Modest farm house surrounded by dust, nearby power lines](../images/lange/dust-bowl-farm.jpg)
Dust Bowl farm. Coldwater District, north of Dalhart, Texas. This house is occupied; most of the houses in this district have been abandoned
LCCN 2017770620
![Abandoned small house against dirt road](../images/lange/drought-abandoned-house-hollis.jpg)
Drought-abandoned house on the edge of the Great Plains near Hollis, Oklahoma
LCCN 2017770649
![Wall of dust pushes up against a dilapidated farm house](../images/lange/abandoned-farm-coldwater.jpg)
Abandoned farm. Coldwater District, north of Dalhart, Texas
LCCN 2017770556
![Tenant farmer's cabin with caved-in roof](../images/lange/abandoned-tenant-cabin-mississippi.jpg)
Abandoned tenant cabin of the Mississippi Delta
LCCN 2017770324
![Fence corner and outbuilding being buried by dust](../images/lange/misuse.jpg)
Fence corner and outbuilding being buried by dust. Misuse of lands is the chief cause of results such as this. Mills, New Mexico
LCCN 2017759919
![Gate and broken fence before exhausted farmland](../images/lange/carter-county.jpg)
Carter County, Oklahoma. Abandoned land, exhausted soil
LCCN 2017770105
![Dust storm; man in foreground; buildings in background](../images/lange/dust-storm.jpg)
Dust storm. It was conditions of this sort which forced many farmers to abandon the area. Spring 1935. New Mexico
LCCN 2017759935
![A corral practically buried by drifted dust.](../images/lange/corral-buried-by-dust.jpg)
A corral practically buried by drifted dust. Mills, New Mexico. Therefore, the fertile top soil of a grazing area cannot be utilized
LCCN 2017759937
![Abandoned farm machinery on scrubby hill; farm house in background](../images/lange/farm-machinery.jpg)
Farm machinery left on abandoned dry land farm in Columbia Basin. Washington, Grant County, one mile east of Quincy.
LCCN 2017773227
![Abandoned farm house on the other side of an empty field](../images/lange/abandoned-farm-texas-county.jpg)
Abandoned farm on the high plains, Texas County, Oklahoma.
LCCN 2017770560
![Abandoned house with rear wall collapsed](../images/lange/abandoned-house-widtsoe.jpg)
One of many abandoned homes in the Widtsoe area. Utah.
LCCN 2017759431
![Disused farm implements resting on dust near a shack](../images/lange/farm-implements.jpg)
These farm implements should never have been used for they destroyed a naturally rich grazing area. Mills, New Mexico
LCCN 2017759938
![Mailbox in foreground; Dirt road intersection in midground; fence in background](../images/lange/mailbox-in-dust-bowl.jpg)
Mailbox in Dust Bowl. Coldwater District, north of Dalhart, Texas
LCCN 2017770562
![Small abandoned church; few conifers, mountains in background](../images/lange/abandoned-church.jpg)
Abandoned church in cut-over area. Boundary County, Idaho
LCCN 2017774199
![Few stumps atop grassy hill](../images/lange/land-cut-over.jpg)
Land cut over by lumber company and not replanted. Greene County, Georgia.
LCCN 2017770465
![Square-patterned frame of abandoned alcohol refinery, surrounded by knee-high forbs](../images/lange/alcohol-plant.jpg)
What is left of the alcohol plant, built to utilize refuse. Fullerton, Louisiana, an abandoned lumber town
LCCN 2017770467
![Abandoned sawmill missing its roof](../images/lange/remains-of-sawmill.jpg)
Remains of sawmill in Fullerton, Louisiana. An abandoned lumber town
LCCN 2017770315
![Careyville, Florida, a ghost town](../images/lange/careyville.jpg)
Careyville, Florida. A sawmill village, abandoned after the closing of the mill
LCCN 2017770367
![Barn surrounded by plowed-out field](../images/lange/power-farming-displaces-tenants.jpg)
Power farming displaces tenants from the land in the western dry cotton area. Childress County, Texas Panhandle
LCCN 2017770664