Dust Bowl Grit
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Dust Bowl Grit
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Author : Dr James D Likens
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-01-31
Dust Bowl Grit written by Dr James D Likens and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-31 with categories.
I was delivered into the world at taxpayer expense. A welfare baby. An Okie. My first home was a tent at the federal government's Weedpatch Camp, where the Joad family settled after they made it to California, in John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. Three decades later I had earned my BA, MBA, and Ph.D. degrees. For the next forty-six years I served as professor of economics at one of the nation's top-rated colleges. I also led a highly-regarded management school. Along the way I worked in consulting, served on boards of directors, testified as an expert witness in legal cases, and even lobbied successfully in the US Congress. Yet I do not consider myself a "self-made man." All my life I have been impressed with the power of encouragement from good people to change the course of the lives of others, including my own, by acts of kindness and encouragement and generosity. Such has been my lifelong lesson in dignity and grace.
The Great American Dust Bowl
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Author : Don Brown
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2013
The Great American Dust Bowl written by Don Brown and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
The causes and results of the Dust Bowl and how the lessons learned are still used today. Presented in comic book format.
Dust Bowl
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Author : Donald Worster
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2004-09-16
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 2004-09-16 with Business & Economics categories.
Personal recollections recreate experiences of two Dust Bowl communities
Dust Bowl Meets Great Depression
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Author : Eliza C. Williams
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Dust Bowl Meets Great Depression written by Eliza C. Williams and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939 categories.
In the 1930s the Great Depression and a severe drought and dust storms rocked the U.S.A decade and a half before, the First World War marked a period of rising global wheat demand, and the Great Plains became an international breadbasket. American farmers met the demand and turned the region into a one-crop resource. The droughts of the early 1930s would further devastate the Plains topsoil, as farmers continued to break the sod and strove to top the yields of the war years. High winds took hold of the dry, overworked soil, now reduced to a fine powder, whipping up dangerous dust storms that transformed farmland into desert, and left thousands homeless and desperate. Inhabitants of the Plains, now termed the Dust Bowl, reacted to harsh conditions by attempting to combat nature, for the land ethic at the time was such that humans thought themselves stronger than and able to defeat the environment, rather than being part of it. At the same time, the Stock Market Crash of 1929 created domestic turmoil and international calamity, and the nation had to confront two unrelated crises simultaneously. With more than 15 million Americans unemployed, President Franklin Roosevelt sought to bolster American morale and unity through his ambitious New Deal, which enacted sweeping social and economic changes. The New Deal offered the American public a chance to combat its predicament and rise above its current circumstances, and the government and the populace united to boost morale by cultivating an attitude of toughness. That the Great Depression occurred at the same time as the Dust Bowl made it so that the environmental disaster was fought in the same manner as the economic crisis--with determination, perseverance, and grit, rather than understanding and moderation. Thus in the public consciousness the Great Depression was linked to an agricultural and environmental crisis, both of which had to be met with fierce resolve. As a result, there would be few opportunities to change the nation's land ethic. The Dust Bowl in and of itself could have presented a teachable moment, to even create a national environmental consciousness. Instead, the concurrence of the Great Depression postponed the start of the modern environmental movement, which would not emerge until the 1960s.
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 : R. Douglas Hurt
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Release Date : 1981
The Dust Bowl written by R. Douglas Hurt and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Business & Economics categories.
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The Dust Bowl
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Author : Marie Roesser
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
The Dust Bowl written by Marie Roesser and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with categories.
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.
Discusses the 1930s disaster and the hardships that farmers and their families faced during that time.
Study Guide For Book Clubs The Four Winds
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Author : Kathryn Cope
language : en
Publisher: Kathryn Cope
Release Date : 2021-05-19
Study Guide For Book Clubs The Four Winds written by Kathryn Cope and has been published by Kathryn Cope this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-19 with Study Aids categories.
An essential tool for all book clubs! No reading group should be without this companion to Kristin Hannah's best-selling novel, The Four Winds. This comprehensive book club guide features useful background to the novel, a full plot summary, discussion of themes & symbols, detailed character notes, 31 thought-provoking discussion questions, and even a quick quiz. Study Guides for Book Clubs help you get the best from your book club meetings. These high-quality guides enable readers to appreciate challenging works of literature in greater depth. Please be aware that this is a companion guide and does not contain the full text of the novel.
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.