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Dust Bowl : the southern Plains in the 1930s  Cover Image Book Book

Dust Bowl : the southern Plains in the 1930s

Summary: Personal recollections recreate experiences of two Dust Bowl communities.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0195174895
  • ISBN: 9780195174892
  • ISBN: 0195174887
  • ISBN: 9780195174885
  • Physical Description: print
    x, 290 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
  • Edition: 25th anniversary ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-283) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: 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.
Subject: Southwestern States History 20th century
Great Plains History 20th century
Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939
Agriculture Southwestern States History 20th century
Agriculture Great Plains History 20th century
Dust storms Southwestern States History 20th century
Dust storms Great Plains History 20th century
Depressions 1929 United States

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.

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Kirtland Community College Library F 786 .W67 2004 30775305535107 General Collection Available -

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