Dust storms have been wreaking havoc across the country, and the mix of climate change and lax environmental regulations mean ...

Ninety years ago, the Black Sunday dust storm blasted the Great Plains with millions of tons of topsoil scoured from the once ...

In 1929, Amelia Perry was born in Haskell County; just one year later, the nation would be hit with an agricultural and ...

This is exactly what happened to the late author Sanora Babb. Her inspiration began as a child in Southeastern Colorado after ...

The end of winter and the beginning of spring always seem to be accompanied by winds that blow for days and weeks on end.

Great dust storms spread from the Dust Bowl area. The drought is the worst ... which allows him to take up to 140 million acres of federally-owned land out of the public domain and establish ...

Russell has published excellent short story collections since her 2011 debut novel Swamplandia!, but this is her first novel ...

Russell says she had been thinking about ”fantasy for sale,” as it relates to versions of the American dream, and about the ...

Karen Russell's Dust Bowl novel effortlessly weaves in characters including a prairie witch that is the keeper of the town's ...

Great dust storms spread from the Dust Bowl area. The drought is the worst ... which allows him to take up to 140 million acres of federally-owned land out of the public domain and establish ...

In 1929, an unprecedented decade of drought, known as the Dust Bowl, hits parts of the Canadian prairies. (National Archives of Canada, PA-139645) Bailey's family had worked the land for ...