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

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.

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Publisher
Mariner Books
Year
2008
ISBN-13
9780618773473
Genre
History
Topics
Dust BowlGreat DepressionAmerican Great Plains

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