No one summons up the "old weird America" in fiction like Karen Russell does. Her tall tales of alligator wrestlers in Florida, homesteaders on the Gothic Great Plains and female prospectors digging ...

Oklahoma Dust Bowl history, the state’s wildlife and a family story come together on something anglers or hunters might carry in their hip pockets in 2020.

Karen Russell’s “The Antidote,” her first novel since Pulitzer Prize finalist “Swamplandia,” does not make it easy on reviewers. This is partly a factor of the Dust Bowl-era novel’s structure, which ...

Following months of research, students at Central Ninth Grade Center presented a first-hand account of the Dust Bowl era to the Sand Springs Cultural and Historical Museum. The students interviewed ...

TULSA, Okla. — An exhibit at the Woody Guthrie Center in Tulsa is giving visitors a look back in time at one of the worst days in the Dust Bowl era, referred to as "Black Sunday." Black Sunday ...

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OLATHE — Water engineer Bob Hurford has a chart he often shares with communities in the Gunnison River Basin to drive home the seriousness of the region’s water conditions. It shows that the basin’s ...

Alyssa Colman is the author of the middle grade fantasy The Tarnished Garden and the companion novel The Gilded Girl. Here she reflects on her research behind her forthcoming book, Where Only Storms ...