The worst hard time : the untold story of those who survived the great American dust bowl

The Resource The worst hard time : the untold story of those who survived the great American dust bowl
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The worst hard time : the untold story of those who survived the great American dust bowl
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the untold story of those who survived the great American dust bowl
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Timothy Egan
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eng
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 who 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."--Jacket
Awards note
  • National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum Western Heritage Award for nonfiction, 2007.
  • National Book Award Winner, Nonfiction, 2006
Biography type
contains biographical information
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DLC
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  • illustrations
  • maps
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index present
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non fiction
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bibliography
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