Erdrich is at her best — as she is here — when she draws on her deep connection with the Great Plains ... Oprah’s Book Club and books editor for O, the Oprah Magazine. This story originally ...

destroyed the farmlands of the Great Plains, turned prairies into deserts, and unleashed a pattern of massive, deadly dust storms that for many seemed to herald the end of the world. It was the ...

November 23, 2024 • In his nifty new history of the Homestead Act, Richard Edwards says the "three perils" of homesteading on the Great Plains were grasshoppers, prairie fires, and childbirth ...