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The Dust Bowl Updated Edition
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Author : Ronald Reis
language : en
Publisher: Infobase Holdings, Inc
Release Date : 2021-04-01
The Dust Bowl Updated Edition written by Ronald Reis and has been published by Infobase Holdings, Inc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-01 with History categories.
Housewives hung wet sheets and blankets over windows, struggling to seal every crack with gummed paper strips. A man avoided shaking hands, lest the static electricity gathered from a dust storm knock his greeter flat. Children's tears turned to mud. Horses chewed feed filled with dust particles that sandpapered their gums raw. Dead cattle, when pried open, were filled with pounds of gut-clogging dirt. The simplest thing in life, taking a breath, became life-threatening. The Dust Bowl conditions during the "Dirty Thirties" were no blind stroke of nature, but had their origins in human error and in the misuse of the land. The Dust Bowl, Updated Edition recounts the factors that led to the Dust Bowl conditions, how those affected coped, and what can be learned from the tragedy, considered by many to be America's worst prolonged environmental disaster.
The Dust Bowl
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Author : Ann Heinrichs
language : en
Publisher: Capstone
Release Date : 2005
The Dust Bowl written by Ann Heinrichs and has been published by Capstone this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Describes how dry, dusty winds and a terrible drought affected farmers and ranchers in the Great Plains for nearly 10 years in the 1930's, labeling the region as the Dust Bowl.
The Dust Bowl
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Author : David C. King
language : en
Publisher: History Compass
Release Date : 2013-07-11
The Dust Bowl written by David C. King and has been published by History Compass this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-11 with History categories.
The ""Dust Bowl"" describes both a time in American history (mid-1930s) and a region (the Great Plains). Severe weather, misuse of land by farmers, and economic pressures from the Great Depression meant that farmers and families in a large area of the central U.S. were faced with loss of usable land, lack of work, and poverty. This is their story, told in their words and in photographs. Included are newspaper accounts, letters, interviews, memoirs, songs, government documents, FDR's Second New Deal, and an excerpt from Steinbeck's ""Grapes of Wrath.""
Dust Bowl
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Author : Donald Worster
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2004-09-09
Dust Bowl written by Donald Worster and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-09-09 with History categories.
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 food on land modeled after the natural prairies that once existed.
Farming The Dust Bowl
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Author : Lawrence Svobida
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
Farming The Dust Bowl written by Lawrence Svobida and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with History categories.
This is the story of Lawrence Svobida, a Kansas wheat farmer who fought searing drought, wind, erosion, and economic hard times in the Dust Bowl. It is a vivid account by a farmer who pitted his physical strength, mental faculties, and financial resources against the environment as nature wreaked havoc across the southern Great Plains. Svobida's description of Dust Bowl agriculture is important not only because it accurately describes farming in that region but also because it is one of the few first-hand accounts that remain of the frightening and still haunting dust-laden decade of the 1930's.
The Dust Bowl
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Author : Marie Roesser
language : en
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Release Date : 2019-12-15
The Dust Bowl written by Marie Roesser and has been published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-15 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Most people have at least seen a snowstorm on television, but imagine a storm of dust instead of snow. These were called "black blizzards" in the Dust Bowl, which was the name for the Great Plains of the United States during the 1930s. Readers will learn what transformed green farmland and lush grassland into a disaster area, forcing thousands to leave, and finally how the land was restored. Stunning photographs reflect the conditions, while Make the Grade fact boxes offer more information about this significant period in American history.
The Dust Bowl
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Author : Dayton Duncan
language : en
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Release Date : 2012-10-12
The Dust Bowl written by Dayton Duncan and has been published by Chronicle Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-12 with History categories.
This “riveting” companion to the PBS documentary “clarifies our understanding of the ‘worst manmade ecological disaster in American history’” (Booklist). In this riveting chronicle, Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns capture the profound drama of the American Dust Bowl of the 1930s. Terrifying photographs of mile-high dust storms, along with firsthand accounts by more than two dozen eyewitnesses, bring to life this heart-wrenching catastrophe, when a combination of drought, wind, and poor farming practices turned millions of acres of the Great Plains into a wasteland, killing crops and livestock, threatening the lives of small children, burying homesteaders’ hopes under huge dunes of dirt—and setting in motion a mass migration the likes of which the nation had never seen. Burns and Duncan collected more than three hundred mesmerizing photographs, some never before published, scoured private letters, government reports, and newspaper articles, and conducted in-depth interviews to produce a document that may likely be the last recorded testimony of the generation who lived through this defining decade.
A Primary Source History Of The Dust Bowl
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Author : Rebecca Langston-George
language : en
Publisher: Capstone
Release Date : 2015
A Primary Source History Of The Dust Bowl written by Rebecca Langston-George and has been published by Capstone this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
"Uses primary sources to tell the story of the Dust Bowl"--
Dust Bowl
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Author : Janette-Susan Bailey
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-10-04
Dust Bowl written by Janette-Susan Bailey and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-04 with History categories.
This book takes the Dust Bowl story beyond Depression America to describe the ‘dust bowl’ concept as a transnational phenomenon, where during World War Two, US and Australian national mythologies converged. Dust Bowl begins with Depression America, the New Deal and the US Dust Bowl where massive dust storms darkened the skies of the Great Plains and triggered a major national and international media event and generated imagery describing a failed yeoman dream, Dust Bowl refugees, and the coming of a new American Desert. Dust Bowl traces the evolution of this imagery to Australia, World War Two and New Deal-inspired stories of conservation-mindedness, soil erosion and enemies, sheep-farmers and traitors, creeping deserts and human extinction, super-human housewives and natural disaster and finally, grand visions of a nation-building post-war scheme for Australia’s iconic Snowy River‒that vision became the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Scheme.
The Dust Bowl
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Author : Sue Vander Hook
language : en
Publisher: ABDO
Release Date : 2009-01-01
The Dust Bowl written by Sue Vander Hook and has been published by ABDO this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-01 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
An introduction to the causes, events, and consequences of the extreme drought and dust storms that affected the Great Plains during the 1930s.