The worst hard time the untold story of those who survived the great American dust bowl
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- ISBN: 9780547347776 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0547347774 (electronic bk.)
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1 online resource (x, 340 p. : ill., map.) - Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2011.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-327) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
Source of Description Note: | Description from print edition record. |
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