The 12-Year-Old Girl Who Walked 40 Miles Through the Dust Bowl to Save Three Children — Oklahoma, 1936
The summer of 1936 was one of the hardest seasons many families in Oklahoma had ever known. The land was exhausted. The fields were cracked. The sky was often hidden behind thick clouds of dust that swallowed farms, roads, and entire communities. Across the Great Plains, the effects of drought and economic hardship had pushed … Read more