Sherry RobinsonAll She Wrote During the Great Depression, western ranchers faced crashing commodity prices and the ravages of ...

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On Independence Day, as communities celebrate national freedom, the city of Hastings’ water department will add to the ...

Hugh Bennett went on a fact finding trip through the Great Plains in search of a solution.

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

In “The Grapes of Wrath,” John Steinbeck captures the suffocating dust storms and drought that plagued the Great Plains ...

The identity of the “Woman of the High Plains” was revealed in 1979—but five years later, Nettie Featherston was forgotten ...

Gaynor, who has professed being “drawn to epic stories of survival” and calls historical research “my jam,” couldn’t resist ...

During the period 1929-34 a campaign forcing the repatriation of Mexicans and Mexican Americans was carried out in the U.S. by states and local authorities. The claim of politicians at the time was ...

Former organizer Donovan Phipps says one of the Dust Bowl’s initiatives is to stop violence and bring people together. “We hear about gun violence, and violence everywhere we go,” Phipps says.

After her parents divorced when she was very young, Geneva and her brother moved to Dixon, South Dakota with their mother. There, the Dust Bowl destroyed crops and livelihoods. It was a community ...

The Evansville Dust Bowl Tournament kicked off Monday and is running through Saturday. Games take place every night from 5 to 10 p.m.