Dust storms have been wreaking havoc across the country, and the mix of climate change and lax environmental regulations mean they’re likely to continue. A series of enormous dust storms swept the ...

In 1929, Amelia Perry was born in Haskell County; just one year later, the nation would be hit with an agricultural and ...

This is exactly what happened to the late author Sanora Babb. Her inspiration began as a child in Southeastern Colorado after ...

The end of winter and the beginning of spring always seem to be accompanied by winds that blow for days and weeks on end.

Great dust storms spread from the Dust Bowl area. The drought is the worst ever in U.S. history, covering more than 75 percent of the country and affecting 27 states severely. Roosevelt signs the ...

Russell says she had been thinking about ”fantasy for sale,” as it relates to versions of the American dream, and about the ...

Russell has published excellent short story collections since her 2011 debut novel Swamplandia!, but this is her first novel ...

Karen Russell's Dust Bowl novel effortlessly weaves in characters including a prairie witch that is the keeper of the town's ...

Hazy or dust-darkened skies have recalled the “Dust Bowl” of the 1930s, when millions of tons of blowing soil buried farms and coated towns across the Great Plains. Lesser storms occur every ...

This famous photo of a father and his sons during the Dust Bowl was taken in Oklahoma by Arthur Rothstein. (Arthur Rothstein/Farm Security Adminstration) ...

The Dust Bowl, arising from a combination of prolonged drought, heavy winds, and over farming leading to fruitless farmland, and skies blotted out by red and brown dust.

Thousands of families simply abandoned their farms altogether. In 1929, an unprecedented decade of drought, known as the Dust Bowl, hits parts of the Canadian prairies. (National Archives of ...