Dust Bowl : the southern Plains in the 1930s / Donald Worster.
Personal recollections recreate experiences of two Dust Bowl communities.
Record details
- ISBN: 0195174895
- ISBN: 9780195174892
- ISBN: 0195174887
- ISBN: 9780195174885
- Physical Description: x, 290 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Edition: 25th anniversary ed.
- Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Content descriptions
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. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Kirtland Community College Library | F 786 .W67 2004 | 30775305535107 | General Collection | Available | - |