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

Ninety years ago, the worst dust storm in American history blasted the Great Plains. The Dust Bowl had arrived.

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

The Farm Credit Act of 1933 establishes a local ... 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 ...

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

Such conditions resulted in a pileup on Interstate 70 last week in western Kansas involving dozens of cars and trucks that ...

and a partnership between government agencies and farmers to develop new farming and conservation methods. The Dust Bowl chronicles this critical moment in American history in all its complexities ...

Learn about the Dust Bowl, and what people lost and did to survive during a "Living Voices: Journey From the Dust" ...

working for some cash to improve the farm." Thousands of families simply abandoned their farms altogether. In 1929, an unprecedented decade of drought, known as the Dust Bowl, hits parts of the ...