The Worst Hard Time : : the Untold Story of Those who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl

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Call Number: 978 Eg
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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pt. 1. Promise: the great plowup, 1901-1930. -- The wanderer -- No man's land -- Creating Dalhart -- High plains Deutsch -- Last of the great plowup -- pt. 2. Betrayal, 1931-1933. -- First wave -- A darkening -- In a dry land -- New leader, New Deal -- Big blows -- pt. 3. Blowup, 1934-1939. -- Triage -- The long darkness -- The struggle for air -- Showdown in Dalhart -- Duster's eve -- Black Sunday -- A call to arms -- Goings -- Witnesses -- The saddest land -- Verdict -- Cornhusker II -- The last men -- Cornhusker III -- Rain.
"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 that 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."

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Great read submitted by bookworms on August 30, 2016, 12:12pm This was a good airplane read... well written and hard to put down account of an awful time.

Thumbs up submitted by sushai on July 23, 2017, 6:44am Such an important part of our country's history. It turns out that human changes to the planet can make terrifying results for weather and climate. Who'd a thunk?
Very thorough, and the personal family stories add interest to the description of years of dust storms.