Topics in Kansas History: Environment

Climate

Find resources on climate.

• Blizzard of 1886
• Dust Bowl Days

Letters, documents, objects, and photographs

• Drouthy Kansas oil painting
• Dust Storm print by Herschel Logan
• "Rain Wizard" poster
• Tornado photographs

Bibliographies, finding aids, and guides to the collections

Kansas Heritage, our popular history magazine

• "Earth, Wind, and Fire: Kansas Archeology," Spring 1997
• "'It Was a Dark and Stormy Night': A Photo Essay," Autumn 1998

Kansas History, our scholarly journal

• "Review Essay Series: The Art of Water and the Art of Living," Spring 2002

Kansas Kaleidoscope, our children's magazine

• "The Dirty Thirties!" March 1999
• "I Love Kansas, Weather or Not," April/May 2003

• Dust Bowl in Kansas
• Kansas Tornado

Teaching Materials

• Classroom Materials: Environment
• Field Trips: Environment

Find other Environment topics.