Great Plains Are Great, Not Plain : The Picture Show By Claire O'NeillI'll admit it: I haven't done much traveling in the areas west of the Mississippi and east of California.

Lost and Found Again: Photos of African-Americans on the Plains What would otherwise be a local-interest story became a snapshot of history integral to the American experience ...

For almost 10 years, the Great Plains became a desert wasteland. During the 1930s, after an intensive period of over-farming, dust storms regularly wreaked havoc, blanketing towns and farms in ...

Most climate models paint a bleak picture of the Great Plains a century from now as a hot region besieged by heavy rainstorms and flooding. And new studies suggest that climate change may bring ...