Learn how open range ranching transformed the Great Plains, from Texas cattle drives to rail hubs like Dodge City and Ogallala, shaping ...

Texas Tech photography professor Jerod Foster is serious about bicycles and adventure travel. Foster is so serious, in fact, that if you stop by the website for Austin-based bike maker Chumba Bikes ...

The Great Plains, including parts of Texas, has become the new epicenter for severe storm activity, according to a new report. Tom Fox / Staff Photographer The Great Plains, including parts of Texas, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A segment of the new Great Plains Gravel Route; (photo/Matt Sherman) As someone who grew up in the endless plains of Texas, it’s ...

Beneath the vast, flat expanse of the American Great Plains, something irreplaceable is quietly disappearing. You can't see it, hear it, or smell it.Yet it feeds roughly a fifth of the food on ...

The American West is experiencing its driest period in human history, a megadrought that threatens health, agriculture and entire ways of life. DRIED UP is examining the dire effects of the drought on ...

Several regions of High Plains received rain unfortunately many others lack needed precipitation, according to the U.S.

A multi-day storm system will bring rounds of severe weather from the southern Plains into the Midwest and Ohio Valley ...

An interesting tree of our Rolling Plains region is endemic to Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma and has close relatives occurring as far north in the Great Plains as Minnesota and eastern North Dakota.

Editor’s Note: Jack Becker is the editor of Caprock Chronicles and is a Librarian Emeritus from Texas Tech University. He can be reached at jack.becker@ttu.edu. Today’s article about pioneer cuisine ...