Book Description
In a memoir in prose and poetry, the author traces his development from a poor Oklahoma farm boy during the depths of the Depression to a respected medieval scholar and outstanding Native American poet.
Author : Carter Revard
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 31,48 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
In a memoir in prose and poetry, the author traces his development from a poor Oklahoma farm boy during the depths of the Depression to a respected medieval scholar and outstanding Native American poet.
Author : Timothy Egan
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 32,69 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 : David Booth
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 21,76 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781550742954
A young boy listens to his grandfather's story of farm life during the Dust Bowl years.
Author : Craig Volk
Publisher : South Dakota State Historical Society
Page : pages
File Size : 31,24 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 : Dayton Duncan
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 38,97 MB
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1452119155
This “riveting” companion to the PBS documentary “clarifies our understanding of the ‘worst manmade ecological disaster in American history’” (Booklist). In this riveting chronicle, Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns capture the profound drama of the American Dust Bowl of the 1930s. Terrifying photographs of mile-high dust storms, along with firsthand accounts by more than two dozen eyewitnesses, bring to life this heart-wrenching catastrophe, when a combination of drought, wind, and poor farming practices turned millions of acres of the Great Plains into a wasteland, killing crops and livestock, threatening the lives of small children, burying homesteaders’ hopes under huge dunes of dirt—and setting in motion a mass migration the likes of which the nation had never seen. Burns and Duncan collected more than three hundred mesmerizing photographs, some never before published, scoured private letters, government reports, and newspaper articles, and conducted in-depth interviews to produce a document that may likely be the last recorded testimony of the generation who lived through this defining decade.
Author : Carter Revard
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 39,65 MB
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816520718
Bootleggers and bankrobbers in the Oklahoma Dust Bowl. Proctors and punters at Oxford. Activists and agitators of the American Indian Movement. Carter Revard has known them all, and in this book— a memoir in prose and poetry— he interweaves the many threads of his life as only a gifted writer can. Winning the Dust Bowl traces Revard's development from a poor Oklahoma farm boy during the depths of the Depression to a respected medieval scholar and outstanding Native American poet. It recounts his search for a personal and poetic voice, his struggle to keep and expand it, and his attempt to find ways of reconciling the disparate influences of his life. In these pages, readers will find poems both new and familiar: poems of family and home, of loss and survival. In linking— what he calls "cocooning"— essays, Revard shares what he has noticed about how poems come into being, how changes in style arise from changes in life, and how language can be used to deal with one's relationship to the world. He also includes stories of Poncas and Osages, powwow stories and Oxford fables, and a gallery of photographs that capture images of his past. Revard has crafted a book about poetry and authorship, about American history and culture. Lyrical in one breath and stingingly political in the next, he calls on his mastery of language to show us the undying connection between literature and life.
Author : Jerry Stanley
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 33,16 MB
Release : 2014-11-26
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0307792471
Illus. with photographs from the Dust Bowl era. This true story took place at the emergency farm-labor camp immortalized in Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. Ostracized as "dumb Okies," the children of Dust Bowl migrant laborers went without school--until Superintendent Leo Hart and 50 Okie kids built their own school in a nearby field.
Author : Sherry Garland
Publisher : Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 23,41 MB
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781589809642
Voices from those who lived through the largest environmental catastrophe in American history. From 1931 to 1940, a combination of drought and soil erosion destroyed the fragile ecology and economy of the Great Plains. Evocative illustrations accompany poignant testimonies, including those of a farmer's wife, a banker, and a child who had never seen rain, to provide an emotionally charged account.
Author : Lydia Reeder
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 39,53 MB
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1616204664
"Published simultaneously in Canada by Thomas Allen & Son Limited."
Author : Albert Marrin
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 12,73 MB
Release : 2012-10-11
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0142425796
In the 1930's, great rolling walls of dust swept across the Great Plains. The storms buried crops, blinded animals, and suffocated children. It was a catastrophe that would change the course of American history as people struggled to survive in this hostile environment, or took the the roads as Dust Bowl refugees. Here, in riveting, accessible prose, and illustrated with moving historical quotations and photographs, acclaimed historian Albert Marrin explains the causes behind the disaster and investigates the Dust Bowl's imact on the land and the people. Both a tale of natural destruction and a tribute to those who refused to give up, this is a beautiful exploration of an important time in our country's past.