The worst hard time : the untold story of those who survived the great American dust bowl
Title:
The worst hard time : the untold story of those who survived the great American dust bowl
Author:
Egan, Timothy.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., [2006]
©2006
Physical Description:
x, 340 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
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.
ISBN:
9780618346974
Format :
Book
