In “The Grapes of Wrath,” John Steinbeck captures the suffocating dust storms and drought that plagued the Great Plains during the 1930s. “All day the dust sifted down from the sky, and the next day ...

The Comanche National Grassland rewards visitors with the chance to follow dinosaur tracks and feel the spine-tingling thrill ...

A fantastical new novel from Karen Russell turns the whispered secrets of a Dust Bowl town into a bold metaphor for repressed ...

The original Dust Bowl, for those who aren’t familiar, took place in the late 1930s after an economic collapse and demographic shifts made farming uneconomical in the central U.S.

Global temperatures have risen since the Industrial Revolution, driven by human emissions of greenhouse gases. The ten ...

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

Dust had been piling up on the drought-stricken land for five years. The Dust Bowl, as AP reporter Robert Geiger coined it, covered the Oklahoma Panhandle and the four states bordering it ...

He had also tried to write two novels already about the Dust Bowl and thrown them away. So he was really frustrated. In May of 1938, he came to the camp and met with Babb and her boss at a cafe.

The original Dust Bowl, for those who aren’t familiar, took place in the late 1930s after an economic collapse and demographic shifts made farming uneconomical in the central U.S. advertisement ...