The worst hard time : the untold story of those who survived the great American dust bowl /
Egan, Timothy.
The worst hard time : the untold story of those who survived the great American dust bowl / Timothy Egan. - Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., c2006. - x, 340 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographcial references (p. 315-327) and index
Promise: the great plowup, 1901-1930. The wanderer-- No man's land -- Creating Dalhart -- High plains Deutsch -- Last of the great plowup -- Betrayal, 1931-1933. First wave -- A darkening -- In a dry land -- New leader, New Deal -- Big blows -- Blowup, 1934-1939. Triage -- The long darkness -- The struggle for air -- Showdown in Dalhart -- Duster's eve -- Black Sunday -- A call to arms -- Goings -- Witnesses -- The saddest land -- Verdict -- Cornhusker II -- The last men -- Cornhusker III -- Rain.
061834697X
9780618346974
2005008057
Depressions--Great Plains.--1929
Droughts--History--Great Plains--20th century.
Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939.
Dust storms--History--Great Plains--20th century.
Great Plains--History--20th century.
Great Plains--Social conditions--20th century.
The worst hard time : the untold story of those who survived the great American dust bowl / Timothy Egan. - Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., c2006. - x, 340 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographcial references (p. 315-327) and index
Promise: the great plowup, 1901-1930. The wanderer-- No man's land -- Creating Dalhart -- High plains Deutsch -- Last of the great plowup -- Betrayal, 1931-1933. First wave -- A darkening -- In a dry land -- New leader, New Deal -- Big blows -- Blowup, 1934-1939. Triage -- The long darkness -- The struggle for air -- Showdown in Dalhart -- Duster's eve -- Black Sunday -- A call to arms -- Goings -- Witnesses -- The saddest land -- Verdict -- Cornhusker II -- The last men -- Cornhusker III -- Rain.
061834697X
9780618346974
2005008057
Depressions--Great Plains.--1929
Droughts--History--Great Plains--20th century.
Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939.
Dust storms--History--Great Plains--20th century.
Great Plains--History--20th century.
Great Plains--Social conditions--20th century.