When biblical jackrabbit plagues swarmed the drought-ravaged High Plains in the early 20th century, rural Americans rallied ...
The storms were driven by winds in excess of 70 mph across a vast stretch of dry fields and prairie from New Mexico and western Texas. In Kansas, more than 70 vehicles crashed in extremely low ...
WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - The Kansas Dust Bowl scarred part of the prairie and damaged agricultural land in the 1930s. On Wednesday Humanities Kansas hosted an event remembering the Kansas Dust Bowl. The ...
TAYLOR COUNTY, Texas (KTAB/KRBC) – In 1929, Amelia Perry was born in Haskell County; just one year later, the nation would be hit with an agricultural and financial blowback that hadn’t been seen in ...
TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) — The Dust Bowl was an event that happened almost 100 years ago in the United States where severe dust storms moved across the country damaging agriculture. With the severe ...
As 2025 comes to a close, we're revisiting interviews with this year's nominees and winners of some of the biggest prizes in literature. Karen Russell’s novel The Antidote is set during the Dust Bowl ...