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Egan, Timothy.
Subjects
Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939.
Droughts -- Great Plains -- History -- 20th century.
Dust storms -- Great Plains -- History -- 20th century.
Depressions -- 1929 -- Great Plains.
Great Plains -- History -- 20th century.
Great Plains -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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The worst hard time ...
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The
worst
hard
time
: the
untold
story
of
those
who
survived
the
great
American
dust
bowl
/ Timothy Egan.
by
Egan, Timothy.
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., c2006. c2006.
Subjects
Dust
Bowl
Era, 1931-1939.
Droughts --
Great
Plains -- History -- 20th century.
Dust
storms --
Great
Plains -- History -- 20th century.
Depressions -- 1929 --
Great
Plains.
Great
Plains -- History -- 20th century.
Great
Plains -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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Summary:
"The
dust
storms that terrorized America's High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since, and the stories of the people that held on have never been fully told. Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist and author Timothy Egan follows a half-dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, going from sod homes to new framed houses to huddling in basements with the windows sealed by damp sheets in a futile effort to keep the
dust
out. He follows their desperate attempts to carry on through blinding black blizzards, crop failure, and the deaths of loved ones. Drawing on the voices of
those
who
stayed and
survived
-
those
who
, now in their eighties and nineties, will soon carry their memories to the grave - Egan tells a
story
of endurance and heroism against the backdrop of the
Great
Depression." Also includes information on alcohol, automobiles and leaving
Dust
Bowl
, banks, bootleggers, cattle, cowboys,
dust
pneumonia, exodusters, farming, food foreclosures, grasses and grasslands, grasshoppers,
Great
American
Desert, heat, homestead land, horses, houses, illnesses, Last Man Club, livestock, Native Americans, newspapers, prices, railroads, rainfall, relocation from
Dust
Bowl
, Resettlement Administration, salaries, soil conservation, soil erosion, static electricity, tractors, tumbleweeds, winds and windstorms, etc.
Description:
x, 340 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
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Madison Library District
Non-fiction
978.032 Egan, Timothy / Worst
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