The worst hard time : the untold story of those who survived the great American dust bowl / Timothy Egan.
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Timothy Egan follows a half-dozen families and their communities through the dust storms that terrorized America's High Plains during the Depression, going from sod huts to new framed houses to basements with the windows sealed by damp sheets in a futile effort to keep the dust out
Record details
- ISBN: 061834697X
- ISBN: 9780618346974
- ISBN: 0618773479
- Physical Description: x, 340 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., [2006]
- Copyright: ©2006
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- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-327) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Promise: the great plowup, 1901-1930. The wanderer-- No man's land -- Creating Dalhart -- High plains Deutsch -- Last of the great plowup -- Betrayal, 1931-1933. First wave -- A darkening -- In a dry land -- New leader, New Deal -- Big blows -- Blowup, 1934-1939. Triage -- The long darkness -- The struggle for air -- Showdown in Dalhart -- Duster's eve -- Black Sunday -- A call to arms -- Goings -- Witnesses -- The saddest land -- Verdict -- Cornhusker II -- The last men -- Cornhusker III -- Rain.
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