| Description |
1 online resource (129 pages) |
| Series |
Great Historic Disasaters |
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Great Historic Disasaters
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| Contents |
Toc; Introduction: Blown in the Wind; Where the Buffalo Roam; Wheat Fields Rising; The Good Times and the Bad; Down and Dusty; Black Sunday; Home on the Plains; California Dreaming; Nightmares in the Promised Land; Thunder in the sky; Chronology; Timeline; Glossary; Bibliography; Further Reading; Picture Credits; Index; About the Author |
| Summary |
Housewives hung wet sheets and blankets over windows and struggled to seal every crack with gummed paper strips. A man avoided shaking hands because the static electricity generated from a dust storm might knock his greeter flat. Children's tears turned to mud. Dead cattle, when pried open, were found filled with pounds of gut-clogging dirt. The simplest thing in life, taking a breath, became life threatening. Conditions in America's prairie during the "Dirty Thirties" were no blind stroke of nature, however. They had their origins in human error and in the misuse of the land. The Dust Bowl recounts the factors that led to these conditions, how those affected coped, and what can be learned from the tragedy, considered by many to be America's worst prolonged environmental disaster |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Great Depression, 1929-1939
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History.
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Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939.
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Depressions -- 1929 -- Great Plains
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Droughts -- Great Plains -- History -- 20th century
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Dust storms -- Great Plains -- History -- 20th century
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history (discipline)
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HISTORY -- State & Local.
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Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939
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History
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Depressions
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Droughts
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Dust storms
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Rural conditions
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Social conditions
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| SUBJECT |
Great Plains -- History -- 20th century
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Great Plains -- Social conditions -- 20th century
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Great Plains -- Rural conditions
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| Subject |
Great Plains
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781438117461 |
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1438117469 |
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