Bibliograph

Dust Bowl, the southern Plains in the 1930s, Donald Worster

Type

Label

Dust Bowl, the southern Plains in the 1930s, Donald Worster

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-283) and index

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Dust Bowl

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

55878029

Responsibility statement

Donald Worster

Sub title

the southern Plains in the 1930s

Summary

Personal recollections recreate experiences of two Dust Bowl communities

Table Of Contents

A darkling plain. The black blizzards roll in ; If it rains ; Okies and exodusters -- Prelude to dust. What holds the earth together ; Sodbusting -- Cimarron County, Oklahoma. Frontier in ruins ; When the cattle ate tumbleweeds ; Hard times in the Panhandle -- Haskell County, Kansas. Unsettled ground ; The wheat farmer and the welfare state ; A sense of place -- A New Deal for the land. Facing up to limits ; Learning from nature ; Make two blades of grass grow ; Epilogue : on a thin edge

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