The 1930s Dust Bowl is infamous in American history—and we could be heading for another one
Dust storms have been wreaking havoc across the country, and the mix of climate change and lax environmental regulations mean ...
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Local recollection of the Dust Bowl, and how it helped farmers adapt to survive
In 1929, Amelia Perry was born in Haskell County; just one year later, the nation would be hit with an agricultural and financial blowback that hadn’t been seen in almost 100 years. The Dust Bowl, ...
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The Great Depression: Visiting Dust Bowl-Era Towns in the U.S.
Echoes of the Past Dalhart, Texas, stands as a beacon of history from the Dust Bowl era, offering visitors a unique glimpse into the past. This town, once overwhelmed by dust storms that turned day ...
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The great American Dust Bowl novel inspired by a woman’s childhood on a dryland farm in Southeastern Colorado
This is exactly what happened to the late author Sanora Babb. Her inspiration began as a child in Southeastern Colorado after ...
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A Child of the Dust Bowl
I was born in what’s now the center — what was considered the center of the Panhandle, the Dust Bowl. I feel like that just being raised in that time period, I have a good history to remember.
Karen Russell’s Dust Bowl ‘Antidote’ is even more ambitious than ‘Swamplandia!’
Karen Russell's Dust Bowl novel effortlessly weaves in characters including a prairie witch that is the keeper of the town's ...
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Review: Four characters weather the Dust Bowl in ‘The Antidote’
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) ...
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A highway pileup in western Kansas shows how dust storms can turn deadly
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 ...