Ninety years ago, the worst dust storm in American history blasted the Great Plains. The Dust Bowl had arrived.

The Great Plains are the grasslands of the North American continent, and lie between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains. Early European explorers found the Plains a very hostile ...

descendants of the original herds that once astonished visitors to the Great Plains and made the bison the symbol of American abundance. Until, that is, rampant hunting made it a symbol of ...

The world of Plains Indians and of other American ... The natural environment of the Great West provided life to American Indians. It also took life! People learned that working together, and ...

But Black Sunday marked the most devastating dust storm in American history, putting Harley and hundreds of thousands of others throughout the Great Plains at the center of one of the worst ...