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Published: June 22, 2008
In Panhandle, the best crops are Dust Bowl memories
Producers pray for rain, ask for help
By John David Sutter
BOISE CITY — Memories of the Dust Bowl hit Millard Fowler , 95, when he sees the wind whipping up small dust storms near his wheat fields in Cimarron County .

"It just looks like the old dirty '30s every time I go by there,” he said.

He remembers years when the trees just across the street were choked up to their necks in powdery dust, and when he would wake up in the morning to find his silhouette traced in...

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