Dust Bowl

BURLINGTON, Colo. -- Wes Robbins, a toddler during the Dust Bowl days of the 1930s and a wheat farmer who survived the drought in the 1950s, doesn't want to say the word now.His fields of tender green winter wheat, usually as soft and thick as a boardroom carpet, are dotted with patches of raw brown earth, and the sky arches a hard, cloudless blue, the same nearly every day for the last nine months."