[TChad]

Rummel says:

"While even lesser droughts had caused the starvation to death of many tens of millions where governments forbid a free market, I could not find a reference to even one American starving to death during the dust bowl. Some Americans did die of suffocation from the dust storms, however, and some died of related diseases."

[lonster]

again, while i don't disagree with the site and respect the points presented, the question as i read it isn't if the people died from famine but if they suffered because of one. i'm sure that if one really looked they could find instances when someone lost their life because of the dust bowl famine even if they didn't starve to death. but considering the record keeping (or lack of it) used at the time to keep track of sharecroppers and small landowners it would really surprise me if their were no starvation considering the lack of crops. i'm not saying the author is wrong, just that the information is quite surprising.