A stiff wind shifted to the north, smashing store windows in downtown Tulsa, snapping telephone poles, ripping signs from their moorings and bringing a grayish-brown cloud from the west into eastern ...

Historians consider 1936 the year that the Dust Bowl officially ended. Millions of tons of topsoil had been stripped from Great Plains farms. The country was still reeling from the Great Depression.

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 next ...

While there are perhaps few Oklahomans with living memory of that consequential Sunday onApril 14th, 1935, there are probably fewer who have never spent time listening intently to theirelders describe ...

Curator Peter Liebhold discusses changes in agriculture in the 1920s and 1930s and provides a short introduction to the concerns of farmers at the start of the Dust Bowl. This video was developed in ...

LIBERAL, Kan., Dec 30 (Reuters) - Real estate agent Mark Faulkner recalls a day in early November when he was putting up a sign near Ulysses, Kansas, in 60-miles-per-hour winds that blew up blinding ...

Hold Your Breath is described, “In 1930s Oklahoma amid the region’s horrific dust storms, a woman (Sarah Paulson) is convinced that a sinister presence is threatening her family.” “Surprisingly enough ...

While there are perhaps few Oklahomans with living memory of that consequential Sunday onApril 14th, 1935, there are probably fewer who have never spent time listening intently to theirelders describe ...