Archive - David Boles: Prairie Voice

From Bugeaters to Billion-Dollar Brands

How Midwestern Football Schools Lost Their Educational Souls to the Altar of Commerce

Dec 19 • David Boles

The Draining Prairie

Farming the Ogallala Aquifer Into Extinction

Dec 15 • David Boles

The Tornado Prairie

Storm Chasing as Economic Engine

Dec 8 • David Boles

The Missile Prairie

:Nuclear Warheads Beneath the Wheat

Dec 1 • David Boles

November 2025

The Hunger of the Frost

Thinking about Thanksgiving

Nov 24 • David Boles

Surgical Prairie

Medical Tourism in the Middle of Nowhere

Nov 17 • David Boles

Incarceration as Rural Economic Development

Nov 10 • David Boles

The Last Private Road in Wheeler County

Not a goat trail... maybe...

Nov 6 • David Boles

October 2025

The Halloween Massacre of Sutter’s Hollow

Oct 31 • David Boles

Underground Prairie

Missile Silos and Continuity of Government

Oct 30 • David Boles

Data Center Prairie

Where Algorithms Graze on Wind Power

Oct 28 • David Boles

The Combine Harvest Circuit

Following the Custom Cutters from Texas to Canada

Oct 23 • David Boles

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