Darrel Coble is the little boy, not yet three years old, in the iconic 1936 Dust Bowl photograph at the top of his headstone.

This image is a microcosm of Cimarron County in the OK Panhandle, with parched sandy soil and a dry late-summer wind from the south.

"...the twisting winds that howl up out of Texas...." --John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, Chapter 12.

"Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return." --Genesis 3:19

This image is also offered in period-correct black-and-white.