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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.
The Worst Hard Time
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Author : Timothy Egan
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2006-09-01
The Worst Hard Time written by Timothy Egan and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-09-01 with History categories.
In a tour de force of historical reportage, Timothy Egan’s National Book Award–winning story rescues an iconic chapter of American history from the shadows. The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since. Following a dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, Timothy Egan tells of their desperate attempts to carry on through blinding black dust blizzards, crop failure, and the death of loved ones. Brilliantly capturing the terrifying drama of catastrophe, he does equal justice to the human characters who become his heroes, “the stoic, long-suffering men and women whose lives he opens up with urgency and respect” (New York Times). In an era that promises ever-greater natural disasters, The Worst Hard Time is “arguably the best nonfiction book yet” (Austin Statesman Journal) on the greatest environmental disaster ever to be visited upon our land and a powerful reminder about the dangers of trifling with nature. This e-book includes a sample chapter of THE IMMORTAL IRISHMAN.
The Great American Dust Bowl
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Author : Don Brown
language : en
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Release Date : 2017-10-10
The Great American Dust Bowl written by Don Brown and has been published by Turtleback Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-10 with categories.
For use in schools and libraries only. Don Brown brings the Dirty Thirties to life in this gripping graphic novel account of one of America's most catastrophic natural events: The Dust Bowl.
The Dust Bowl
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Author : Ronald A. Reis
language : en
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Release Date : 2008
The Dust Bowl written by Ronald A. Reis and has been published by Infobase Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Depressions categories.
Housewives hung wet sheets and blankets over windows and struggled to seal every crack with gummed paper strips. A man avoided shaking hands because the static electricity generated from a dust storm might knock his greeter flat. Children's tears turned to mud. Dead cattle, when pried open, were found filled with pounds of gut-clogging dirt. The simplest thing in life, taking a breath, became life threatening. Conditions in America's prairie during the Dirty Thirties were no blind stroke of nature, however. They had their origins in human error and in the misuse of the land. The Dust Bowl recounts the factors that led to these 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 : 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.
Letters From The Dust Bowl
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Author : Caroline Henderson
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2012-10-19
Letters From The Dust Bowl written by Caroline Henderson and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-19 with History categories.
In May 1936 Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace wrote to Caroline Henderson to praise her contributions to American "understanding of some of our farm problems." His comments reflected the national attention aroused by Henderson’s articles, which had been published in Atlantic Monthly since 1931. Even today, Henderson’s articles are frequently cited for her vivid descriptions of the dust storms that ravaged the Plains. Caroline Henderson was a Mount Holyoke graduate who moved to Oklahoma’s panhandle to homestead and teach in 1907. This collection of Henderson’s letters and articles published from 1908 to1966 presents an intimate portrait of a woman’s life in the Great Plains. Her writing mirrors her love of the land and the literature that sustained her as she struggled for survival. Alvin O. Turner has collected and edited Henderson’s published materials together with her private correspondence. Accompanying biographical sketch, chapter introductions, and annotations provide details on Henderson’s life and context for her frequent literary allusions and comments on contemporary issues.
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.
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.
Dust Bowl
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Author : Richard H. Levey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
Dust Bowl written by Richard H. Levey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Agriculture categories.
With blinding clouds of dust blanketing the Great Plains like a raging Black Blizzard, the 1930s Dust Bowl crippled America's farmers, destroying their land and homes. In vivid narrative detail, Dust Bowl! The 1930s Black Blizzard retells the compelling stories of the displaced farmers who struggled through the worst and longest drought in U.S. history. Young readers will discover the causes of droughts and dust bowls, and learn about advances made to prevent dust storms today. Gripping four-color photos, maps, and a diagram of a dust storm are guaranteed to capture students' attention.