For High Plains Polar Radio Readers Club, I'm Shane Timson in Colby, Kansas.Today, I'm talking about the book Dust Bowl, The ...

Regardless of where you heard the term, let's dive into why it happened, and what impacts were made across the United States, as well as here in Iowa. The dust bowl term describes a series of ...

The effects of The Dust Bowl in the early 1930s led to a wave of record-setting heat waves across the eastern half of the country in July of 1936.

The Dust Bowl, as AP reporter Robert Geiger coined it, covered the Oklahoma Panhandle and the four states bordering it — northern Texas, northeast New Mexico, southeast Colorado and western Kansas.

The Dust Bowl exodus was the largest migration in American history. By 1940, 2.5 million people had moved out of the Plains states; of those, 200,000 moved to California.

At its height, 700 people from 35 states called the community home before the dust bowl wiped it out. It was the largest Black homesteading settlement in Colorado.

On April 14, 1935 a massive dust storm swept across several of the plains states afflicted by the American Dust Bowl, darkening the sky and displacing an estimated 300,000 tons of topsoil.It ...