This is exactly what happened to the late author Sanora Babb. Her inspiration began as a child in Southeastern Colorado after ...

In 1929, Amelia Perry was born in Haskell County; just one year later, the nation would be hit with an agricultural and ...

Russell says she had been thinking about ”fantasy for sale,” as it relates to versions of the American dream, and about the ...

Karen Russell’s “The Antidote,” her first novel since Pulitzer Prize finalist “Swamplandia,” does not make it easy on ...

Karen Russell's Dust Bowl novel effortlessly weaves in characters including a prairie witch that is the keeper of the town's ...

Russell has published excellent short story collections since her 2011 debut novel Swamplandia!, but this is her first novel ...

I was born in what’s now the center — what was considered the center of the Panhandle, the Dust Bowl. I feel like that just being raised in that time period, I have a good history to remember.

The March 14 wind storm didn’t only whip up dust, it also caused wildfires to rapidly spread across Texas and Oklahoma. In detailed satellite imagery you could see the thick dispersion of dust ...

FFA and 4-H youth have shown animals for decades. The 2025 Oklahoma Youth Expo junior livestock show will be held March 10-21 at the OKC Fairgrounds.

The Dust Bowl, arising from a combination of prolonged drought, heavy winds, and over farming leading to fruitless farmland, and skies blotted out by red and brown dust.