Mark Sweeney of the University of South Dakota will discuss his book, “The Dust Bowl in South Dakota: A Dusty Future?” when the Sierra Club Discovery Group meets at 6:30 ...
This paper investigates how innovation responded to and shaped the economic impact of the American Dust Bowl, an environmental catastrophe that led to widespread soil erosion on the US Plains during ...
We hear a lot about the Bakersfield Sound but beyond the music, the voices of the valley still ring strong. One such voice was Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel, known as the "Okie Poet," who chronicled the ...
Born from the dust-choked fields of the Great Depression, the Brown Creek Soil Conservation District in Anson County became a ...
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What People Ate to Survive During the Dust Bowl
The Great Depression was an era of financial toil for nearly everyone in the United States. But those in the Dust Bowl were hit particularly hard - the Southern plains region of the US experienced a ...
Farm with huge dust cloud approaching, dust storm near barn. April 15, 1935. Boise City, Oklahoma.AP350415017—AP1935 Ken Burns has a gift for making documentaries that are not at all about today’s ...
With the 52nd annual Dust Bowl basketball tournament set to tip off July 18, organizers have been working to build for the event’s present and future — while still paying tribute to its storied past.
Researchers at UC Santa Cruz contributed to a new global study published in Science that reveals how severe, long-term ...
Karen Russell, bestselling author of “Swamplandia!” and other novels, will discuss her latest work, “The Antidote” in Houston with Inprint on April 14. On April 14, 1935 a massive dust storm swept ...
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