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Children of the Dust BowlJerry StanleyBooks |
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Dust Bowl DiaryAnn Marie LowThe Dust Bowl |
Dust Bowl Diary “Life in what the newspapers call ‘the Dust Bowl' is becoming a gritty nightmare," Ann Marie Low wrote in 1934. Her diary vividly captures that “gritty nightmare" as it was lived by one rural family-and by millions of other Americans. The books opens in 1927-“the last of the good years"-when Ann Marie is a teenager living with her parents, brother, and sister on a stock farm in southeastern North Dakota. We follow her family and friends, descendants of homesteaders, through the next ten years-a time of searing summer heat and desiccated fields, dying livestock, dust to the tops of fence posts and prices at rock bottom-a time when whole communities lost their homes and livelihoods to mortgages and, hardest of all, to government recovery programs. We also see the coming to maturity of the author in the face of economic hardship, frustrating family circumstances, and the stifling restrictions that society then placed on young women. Ann Marie Low's diary, supplemented with reminiscences, offers a rich, circumstantial view of rural life a half century ag... |
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Voices of the Dust Bowl (Voices of History) Sherry Garland
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The Dust Bowl David Booth
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Out Of The DustKaren HesseBooks |
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Dust to EatMichael L. CooperBooks |
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American ExodusJames N. GregoryBooks |
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The Dust Bowl (You Choose BooksAllison LassieurBooks |
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The Dust Bowl Through the LensMartin W. SandlerBooks |
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Farming the Dust Bowl Lawrence Svobida
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Dust Bowl In the mid 1930s, North America's Great Plains faced one of the worst man-made environmental disasters in world history. Donald Worster's classic chronicle of the devastating years between 1929 and 1939 tells the story of the Dust Bowl in ecological as well as human terms. Now, twenty-five years after his book helped to define the new field of environmental history, Worster shares his more recent thoughts on the subject of the land and how humans interact with it. In a new afterword, he links the Dust Bowl to current political, economic and ecological issues--including the American livestock industry's exploitation of the Great Plains, and the on-going problem of desertification, which has now become a global phenomenon. He reflects on the state of the plains today and the threat of a new dustbowl. He outlines some solutions that have been proposed, such as "the Buffalo Commons," where deer, antelope, bison and elk would once more roam freely, and suggests that we may yet witness a Great Plains where native flora and fauna flourish while applied ecologists show farmers how to raise f... |
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Dust BowlDonald WorsterThe Dust Bowl |
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The Worst Hard TimeTimothy EganBooks |
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