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, ...

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 ...

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

The Federal Crop Insurance Program costs the government an average of $9 billion annually. Climate change could raise its ...

In “The Antidote,” set during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s ... from Pawnee to the Polish American farmers who themselves had fled a place “carved up by empire.” A large part of the book ...

Graduate students from the South Dakota State University School of Communication and Journalism (COJO) will host a ...

Texas joined the United States in 1845, and American interest in the Panhandle increased. The Red River War (1874–1875) marked a decisive campaign by the U.S. Army to remove Comanche and Kiowa tribes ...

Pianist Tim Chipman will perform at 4 p.m. Sunday, during the library's next Music Under the Dome concert. Chipman a lifelong pianist and an elementary school principal, was taught to play by the ...

He believes “tech stocks will ultimately make new all-time highs during the second half ... economic slowdown that followed. Farmers devastated by the Dust Bowl were among the hardest hit.

The “dust bowl” days in the 1930s showed soil erosion ... paid 75% of the cost of improvements needed for farmers and ranchers to implement rotation grazing systems. Such grazing reduces ...