Book Description
The author recounts her experiences growing up in North Dakota from 1928 to 1937 the years of the Dust bowl and Depression
Author : Ann Marie Low
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 48,6 MB
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780803279131
The author recounts her experiences growing up in North Dakota from 1928 to 1937 the years of the Dust bowl and Depression
Author : Katelan Janke
Publisher :
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 45,14 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780439215992
A twelve-year-old girl keeps a journal of her family's and friends' difficult experiences in the Texas panhandle, part of the "Dust Bowl," during the Great Depression. Includes a historical note about life in America in 1935.
Author : Mary Knackstedt Dyck
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 43,88 MB
Release : 2005-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780877459323
A remarkable historical document, this diary describes a period before the telephone and indoor plumbing were commonplace in rural homes, a time when farm families in the Plains states were isolated from world events, and radio provided an enormously important link between farmsteads and the world at large. Waiting on the Bounty brings us unusual insights into the agricultural and rural history of the US, detailing the tremendous changes affecting farming families and small towns during the Great Depression.
Author : Craig Volk
Publisher : South Dakota State Historical Society
Page : pages
File Size : 44,46 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781941813294
"Using the writings of his grandmother, Margaret Spader Neises, and mother, Joan Neises Volk, author Craig Volk creates a one-year diary that details the life and times of a woman during 1932."--
Author : Caroline Henderson
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 25,96 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780806135403
A collection of letters and articles written by Caroline Henderson between 1908 and 1966 which provide insight into her life in the Great Plains, featuring both published materials and private correspondence. Includes a biographical profile, chapter introductions, and annotations.
Author : Lawrence Svobida
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 15,2 MB
Release : 1986-04-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0700602909
This is a powerful original account of one man's efforts to raise wheat on his farm in Meade County, Kansas, during the 1930s. Lawrence Svobida tells of farmers "fighting in the front-line trenches, putting in crop after crop, year after year, only to see each crop in turn destroyed by the elements." Although not a writer by trade, Svobida undertook to record what he saw and experienced "to help the reader to understand what is taking place in the Great Plains region, and how serious it is." He wrote of the need for better farming methods--the only way, he felt, the destruction could be halted or confined. Well before the principles of an ecological movement were widely embraced, Svobida urged a public acceptance of the "sovereign rights of the states and the nation to regulate the use of land by owners . . .so that it may be conserved as a national resource." This graphic account of farm life in the Dust Bowl—perhaps the only autobiographical record of Dust Bowl agriculture in existence—was first published in 1941. This new edition contains an introduction by the historian R. Douglas Hurt that not only objectively sets the scene during and after the Dust bowl, but also places the book properly in the growing body of contemporary literature on agriculture and land use. The volume is an important contribution to American agricultural history in general, and the the history of the Depression and of the Great Plains in particular.
Author : Timothy Egan
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 46,91 MB
Release : 2006-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0547347774
In a tour de force of historical reportage, Timothy Egan’s National Book Award–winning story rescues an iconic chapter of American history from the shadows. The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since. Following a dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, Timothy Egan tells of their desperate attempts to carry on through blinding black dust blizzards, crop failure, and the death of loved ones. Brilliantly capturing the terrifying drama of catastrophe, he does equal justice to the human characters who become his heroes, “the stoic, long-suffering men and women whose lives he opens up with urgency and respect” (New York Times). In an era that promises ever-greater natural disasters, The Worst Hard Time is “arguably the best nonfiction book yet” (Austin Statesman Journal) on the greatest environmental disaster ever to be visited upon our land and a powerful reminder about the dangers of trifling with nature. This e-book includes a sample chapter of THE IMMORTAL IRISHMAN.
Author : William Durbin
Publisher : Scholastic Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 23,77 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780439153065
Desperate to survive during the Dust Bowl, C. J. Jackson and his family leave the panhandle of Oklahoma and head west to California, where they hope to make a better life for themselves.
Author : Martin W. Sandler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 18,37 MB
Release : 2009-10-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0802795471
The Dust Bowl was a time of hardship and environmental and economic disaster. More than 100 million acres of land had turned to dust, causing hundreds of thousands of people to seek new homes and opportunities thousands of miles away, while millions more chose to stay and battle nature to save their land. FDR's army of photographers took to the roads to document this national crisis. Their pictures spoke a thousand words, and a new form of storytelling- photojournalism-was born. With the help of iconic photographs from Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, Arthur Rothstein, and many more, Martin Sandler tells the story of a nation as it endured its darkest days and the extraordinary courage and spirit of those who survived.
Author : Don Brown
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 39,46 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0547815506
The causes and results of the Dust Bowl and how the lessons learned are still used today. Presented in comic book format.