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, ...

Severe drought hits the Midwestern and Southern Plains. As the crops die, the “black blizzards” begin. Dust from the over-plowed and over-grazed land begins to blow. When Franklin Roosevelt ...

Dust storms have been wreaking havoc across the country, and the mix of climate change and lax environmental regulations mean ...

Imagine your novel about farmers fleeing the high plains during the Dust Bowl is about to be published. But another book — one partially based on your notes — comes out first. It’s John ...

In his magisterial history of the region that came to be known as the Dust Bowl—the ... grasslands—during the 1920s, lured by cheap land and rising wheat prices. As farmers plowed the prairie ...

On April 14, 1935, a wall of dust, hundreds of feet high, descended on farms and homes in the Great Plains. People drove as fast as they could to get away from the black clouds or covered their faces, ...

Crop insurance, born from the Dust Bowl-era urgency to help farmers in times of disaster ... If a grower files a claim during a particularly bad season, most crop insurance policies will exclude ...

Two-thirds of Saskatchewan families received relief after the Dust Bowl left prairie farmers with parched ... emerged from the prairie dust during the darkest days of the Great Depression.

Severe drought hits the Midwestern and Southern Plains. As the crops die, the “black blizzards” begin. Dust from the over-plowed and over-grazed land begins to blow. When Franklin Roosevelt ...

During the 1930s, drought and economic depression forced prairie farmers to abandon their farms ... known as the Dust Bowl, hits parts of the Canadian prairies. (National Archives of Canada ...