The Dust Bowl exodus was the largest migration in American history. By 1940, 2.5 million people had moved out of the Plains states; of those, 200,000 moved to California. When they reached the ...

Route 66 holds a special place in American history, especially during the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s. When severe drought and failing crops turned the Great Plains into a dust-covered ...

Russell’s Uz is a desolate, ravaged Dust Bowl town where farmers have lost ... Gripped by the legacy of land theft and the forced migration of Native Americans, Russell constructed a novel ...

When press reports of the dire situation in the Dust Bowl appeared throughout the country, John L. McCarty, the outspoken young editor of the "Dalhart Texan" newspaper, rushed to the region's defense.