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Egan, Timothy.
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Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939.
Droughts -- Great Plains -- History -- 20th century.
Dust storms -- Great Plains -- History -- 20th century.
Depressions -- 1929 -- Great Plains.
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Great Plains -- History -- 20th century.
Great Plains -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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The worst hard time ...
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The worst hard time : the untold story of those who survived the great American dust bowl / Timothy Egan.
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Egan, Timothy.
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2006
Subjects
Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939.
Droughts -- Great Plains -- History -- 20th century.
Dust storms -- Great Plains -- History -- 20th century.
Depressions -- 1929 -- Great Plains.
National book award
Award winning title
Great Plains -- History -- 20th century.
Great Plains -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
ISBN:
9780618346974
061834697X
9780618773473 (pbk.)
0618773479 (pbk.)
9781439562581
143956258X
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x, 340 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Contents:
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.
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