It sounds like 40 John Deere lawn tractors as it slowly makes its way to our block, hitched behind a public works truck. An employee wearing ear protection walks alongside the trailer, aiming the ...

In the 1930s, the United States — particularly in the Great Plains — entered a period of extreme drought that became known historically as the Dust Bowl. At the beginning of the decade, a separate ...

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 ...

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.

Pat Rush and her family left Arkansas in the wake of one of the largest migrations in U.S. history, in the hope of making a ...

The battered old photo was dated 1936. Abe Lemons was a child of the Dust Bowl. The Dust Bowl is the cautionary tale of what ...

When the writer returned home, he began working on his first attempt at writing his Dust Bowl novel, a manuscript he called “The Oklahomans,” but by January 1938 he’d abandoned this ...

He’s seen it all before. Back in the Dust Bowl days he watched in awe as dark clouds of topsoil swallowed up the family ranch. That was in the mid-1930s, when Bill Tullos was just a boy.

Investors are betting extreme weather will rewrite the rules of real estate. Here’s what that means for your home.

The last time climate, public policy and despair collided here, 2.5 million people migrated from the Dust Bowl. So, it might be worth asking just how well positioned is Kansas, or your community ...

During the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, millions of desperate Americans abandoned their homes, farms and businesses to look for work elsewhere. Though Rush’s family left after the Dust Bowl years ...

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 ...