In the late 1990s, I was casting about for a new career track. “Why don’t you write a book about the Dust Bowl,” said my aunt, Ardith Rieke, who had grown up in the 1930s on a farm in ...

In the Dust Bowl, about 7,000 ... “In no other instance was there greater or more sustained damage to the American land,” writes historian Donald Worster, author of the 1979 history, “Dust ...

Just so, The Dust Bowl (Nov. 18 and 19, on PBS) is about the Dust Bowl. As far as PBS need be concerned, ... (As author and environmental historian Donald Worster says in the film, ...