When biblical jackrabbit plagues swarmed the drought-ravaged High Plains in the early 20th century, rural Americans rallied ...
An upcoming exhibit at a local museum aims to unearth the dirty truth about the historic Dust Bowl of the 1930s.
I’ve been thinking a little about the Dust Bowl, prompted by the Ken Burns documentary that we’ve just now gotten around to watching. Yeah, I know. It’s five below out, ...
About 90 years ago, American farmers in the Great Plains had so ravaged the thin soil there that a series of droughts turned the region into a vast expanse of dust, which formed monstrous storms and ...