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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 : 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.""
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.
Dust Bowl
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Author : Donald Worster
language : en
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1982
Dust Bowl written by Donald Worster and has been published by New York : Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Business & Economics 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.
The Dust Bowl
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Author : Mathew Paul Bonnifield
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
The Dust Bowl written by Mathew Paul Bonnifield and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 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.
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.
Farming The Dust Bowl
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Author : Lawrence Svobida
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Release Date : 1986-04-14
Farming The Dust Bowl written by Lawrence Svobida and has been published by University Press of Kansas this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986-04-14 with History categories.
This is a powerful original account of one man's efforts to raise wheat on his farm in Meade County, Kansas, during the 1930s. Lawrence Svobida tells of farmers "fighting in the front-line trenches, putting in crop after crop, year after year, only to see each crop in turn destroyed by the elements." Although not a writer by trade, Svobida undertook to record what he saw and experienced "to help the reader to understand what is taking place in the Great Plains region, and how serious it is." He wrote of the need for better farming methods--the only way, he felt, the destruction could be halted or confined. Well before the principles of an ecological movement were widely embraced, Svobida urged a public acceptance of the "sovereign rights of the states and the nation to regulate the use of land by owners . . .so that it may be conserved as a national resource." This graphic account of farm life in the Dust Bowl—perhaps the only autobiographical record of Dust Bowl agriculture in existence—was first published in 1941. This new edition contains an introduction by the historian R. Douglas Hurt that not only objectively sets the scene during and after the Dust bowl, but also places the book properly in the growing body of contemporary literature on agriculture and land use. The volume is an important contribution to American agricultural history in general, and the the history of the Depression and of the Great Plains in particular.
The Great Depression
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Author : Marcia Amidon Lusted
language : en
Publisher: Nomad Press
Release Date : 2016-02-22
The Great Depression written by Marcia Amidon Lusted and has been published by Nomad Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-22 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
In The Great Depression: Experience the 1930s From the Dust Bowl to the New Deal, readers ages 12 to 15 investigate the causes, duration, and outcome of the Great Depression, the period of time when more than 20 percent of Americans were unemployed. They discover how people coped, what new inventions came about, and how the economics of the country affected the arts, sciences, and politics of the times. The decade saw the inauguration of many social programs that Americans still benefit from today. The combination of President Roosevelt’s New Deal and the dawning of World War II gave enough economic stimulus to boost the United States out of its slump and into a new era of recovery. In The Great Depression, students explore what it meant to live during this time. Projects such as designing a 1930s outfit and creating a journal from the point of view of a kid whose family is on the road help infuse the content with realism and practicality. In-depth investigations of primary sources from the period allow readers to engage in further, independent study of the times. Additional materials include a glossary, a list of current reference works, and Internet resources.
The Dust Bowl
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981
The Dust Bowl written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Agriculture categories.
The Dust Bowl
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Author : Mathew Paul Bonnifield
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
The Dust Bowl written by Mathew Paul Bonnifield and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Agriculture categories.