Douglas Hurt's The Dust Bowl The Dust Bowl, written by R. Douglas Hurt explores the Dust Bowl and the effects it had on the societies who dealt with it. The Dust Bowl is a vast area stretching across the Great Plains from Oklahoma to Colorado. Hurt includes precise locations of specific dust storms that took place from the early 1800’s until the 1930’s and on. Also included in The Dust Bowl are descriptive pictures, and a vision into the life of the people who lived through the horrible dust storms. R. Douglas Hurt found his information from a number of resources located throughout the United