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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... read more
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- Haskell
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- John Steinbeck
- Howard Finnell
- John Wesley Powell
- Cimarron
- Rexford Tugwell
- Lewis Gray
- Dorothea Lange
- Frederic Clements
- Jefferson
- Hugh Bennett
- Archibald Macleish
- Rothstein
- Woody Guthrie
- Hogue
- Malin
- Geiger
- Carey McWilliams: (1905-1980) American author, editor, and lawyer. He is best known for his writings about social issues in California, including the condition of migrant farm workers and the internment of Japanese Americans in concentration camps during World War II.
Setting & Locations edit
- United States
- Kansas City
- Great Plains
- Oklahoma
- Texas
- Colorado
- California
- Boise City
- Washington, D.C.
- New Mexico
- Amarillo
- Nebraska
- New York
- Satanta
- Dodge City
- Dalhart
- Garden City
- Europe
- Illinois
- Missouri
- Chicago
- Arizona
- South Dakota
- Colusa
- Guymon
- Southwest
- Arkansas
- High Plains
- North Dakota
- Germany
- Denver
First Sentence edit
ginia to Missouri and Arkansas, marked the hardest hit area of wilting crops, shrinking ground-water supplies, and uncertain income.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Donald Worster (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1979
ISBN: 0195025504
Page Count: 288
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1979
ISBN: 0195025504
Page Count: 288
Awards edit
- Bancroft Prize (1980)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 978.032
Subjects edit
- Books › History › Americas › United States › 20th Century › Depression
- Books › History › Americas › United States › State & Local › Southwest
- Books › Science › Agricultural Sciences
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