but that's changing in the Great Plains because of the attraction of working in the booming oil and gas industries. The aging baby boom generation helped inch up the median age in the United ...

the homesteaders reached the Plains in the middle of the industrial age. As a result, there are thousands of ghost towns in Kansas alone, each a vacant reminder that on the Great Plains farming ...

This historically dry, hot year is wreaking havoc across the US. In the Great Plains, widespread drought has dried up water supplies, decimated crop harvests, and left cattle with no grass to eat.

but that's changing in the Great Plains because of the attraction of working in the booming oil and gas industries. The aging baby boom generation helped inch up the median age in the United ...