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The novel centers around themes of motherhood, the American Dream and survival — depicting the harsh realities of the Dust Bowl for working-class Americans. “The Four Winds” begins in 1921 in Texas, ...

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The Dust Bowl, from prolonged drought, heavy winds, and over-farming, led to fruitless farmland and skies blotted out by red and brown dust. “We were fortunate right where we lived it wasn’t ...

By Marni Kamins “Superman’s not coming. We’ve been taught to believe that someone else is going to fix it — the EPA, the ...

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In “The Antidote,” set during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, characters contend with a natural world that’s fighting back against the farming methods of white settlers, and one woman offers a ...

Buy your copy today In Kansas in 1935, at the height of the Dust Bowl, one of the most severe measles outbreaks up to that point occurred, with more than 40,000 cases and 145 deaths in just over ...

The strong winds also contributed to dust storms, reducing visibility and creating hazardous travel conditions, My Plainview reported. The winds were strong enough to knock over a single tractor ...

Dozens of wildfires sparked up across Oklahoma as powerful winds fanned flames. An expansive dust storm across West and central Texas, Oklahoma and portions of Kansas dropped visibility under a ...