The Dust Bowl: An Environmental CatastropheSo you didn't drive anywhere without having this chain that you'd then throw out and drag it along the ground to ground the electricity and your radio ...

1. In “The Grapes of Wrath,” John Steinbeck captures the suffocating dust storms and drought that plagued the Great Plains during the 1930s. “All day the dust sifted down from the sky, and ...

The original Dust Bowl, for those who aren’t familiar, took place in the late 1930s after an economic collapse and demographic shifts made farming uneconomical in the central U.S.

TAYLOR COUNTY, Texas (KTAB/KRBC) – 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 ...

TV Weekend: The Dust Bowl 7 minute read Farm with huge dust cloud approaching, dust storm near barn. April 15, 1935. Boise City, Oklahoma. AP350415017—AP1935 ...

Friday was the first time the city had seen a dust storm since May 10, 1934, which was during the first wave of the Dust Bowl. Friday's storm was carrying dust picked up from farms in central ...

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Karen Russell's sprawling new novel begins on a day called Black Sunday, set during the Dust Bowl storms in the 1930s. The story is told by Antonina Rossi.