In the 1930s, the Great Plains in the American South faced a financial and environmental catastrophe spurred by years of drought and reckless farming practices. Already reeling from the Great ...

Of all of the periods of American history that people talk about and explore through fiction, one that is simultaneously the least represented and perhaps most fascinating is the Dust Bowl era of the ...

Less well-known than those who sought refuge in California, typified by the Joad family in John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath,” the Dust Bowlers who stayed overcame an almost unbelievable series of ...

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