Wind Erosion and a Dust Bowl Era Cemetery
Channel: ColbyDigsSoil
Date: 12/08/2022

A road-side tour of three fields in Morton County, Kansas and a Dust Bowl era Cemetery. The three fields included one that was part of the Cimarron National Grassland, one that was conventionally tilled and was actively eroding, and one that was under CRP. The cemetery is Prairie Flower (also known as Wilburton) Cemetery. The deceased primarily passed away during the Dust Bowl during the 1930s, and appeared to be primarily children and the elderly. 

Graveyard and headstone information for Prairie Flower Cemetery is available from:
KansasGravestones.org, https://kansasgravestones.org/cemetery.php?cemID=1335
FindAGrave.com, https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/94079/prairie-flower-cemetery

Video by Colby Moorberg, PhD, CPSS, PWS

Filmed in Morton County, Kansas on May 10, 2022

Special thanks to Tom Roth

Music: 
"Plantation" by Audionautix, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license
"Amazing Grace" by Cooper Cannell