Amelia Perry was born in Haskell County, Just one year later the nation would be hit with an agricultural and financial blow back, the likes of which haven't been seen in the almost 100 years since.

Such conditions resulted in a pileup on Interstate 70 last week in western Kansas involving dozens of cars and trucks that ...

Residents complained of incessant traffic and excessive dust pollution due to ongoing road repairs, and raised concerns over ...

Severe winds and a dust storm were being blamed for wildfires, power outages and road closures Tuesday around the Texas Panhandle-South Plains.

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.

Thousands of families simply abandoned their farms altogether. In 1929, an unprecedented decade of drought, known as the Dust Bowl, hits parts of the Canadian prairies. (National Archives of ...