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Author : Ann Marie Low
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0803279132
The author recounts her experiences growing up in North Dakota from 1928 to 1937 the years of the Dust bowl and Depression
Author : Mary Knackstedt Dyck
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2005-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0877459320
A remarkable historical document, this diary describes a period before the telephone and indoor plumbing were commonplace in rural homes, a time when farm families in the Plains states were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,Margaret Spader Neises,Joan Neises Volk
Publisher : South Dakota State Historical Society
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1941813291
"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 : 308 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806187945
In May 1936 Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace wrote to Caroline Henderson to praise her contributions to American "understanding of some of our farm problems." His comments reflected the national attention aroused by Henderson’s articles, which had been published in Atlantic Monthly since 1931. Even today, Henderson’s articles are frequently cited for her vivid descriptions of the dust storms that ravaged the Plains. Caroline Henderson was a Mount Holyoke graduate who moved to Oklahoma’s panhandle to homestead and teach in 1907. This collection of Henderson’s letters and articles published from 1908 to1966 presents an intimate portrait of a woman’s life in the Great Plains. Her writing mirrors her love of the land and the literature that sustained her as she struggled for survival. Alvin O. Turner has collected and edited Henderson’s published materials together with her private correspondence. Accompanying biographical sketch, chapter introductions, and annotations provide details on Henderson’s life and context for her frequent literary allusions and comments on contemporary issues.
Author : Timothy Egan
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2006-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780547347776
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 : Don Brown
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780547815503
The causes and results of the Dust Bowl and how the lessons learned are still used today. Presented in comic book format.
Author : Lawrence Svobida
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1986-04-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780700602902
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 : Benjamin Roth
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781586488376
When the stock market crashed in 1929, Benjamin Roth was a young lawyer in Youngstown, Ohio. After he began to grasp the magnitude of what had happened to American economic life, he decided to set down his impressions in his diary. This collection of those entries reveals another side of the Great Depression—one lived through by ordinary, middle-class Americans, who on a daily basis grappled with a swiftly changing economy coupled with anxiety about the unknown future. Roth's depiction of life in time of widespread foreclosures, a schizophrenic stock market, political unrest and mass unemployment seem to speak directly to readers today.
Author : Karen Hesse
Publisher : Ernst Klett Sprachen
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3125781809
Author : William Durbin
Publisher : Scholastic Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0439153069
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 : Kate Connell
Publisher : I Am American
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0792269039
Illustrated text, letters, and diary excerpts follow the fictional Buckler family during the Great Depression, as they leave Oklahoma, because of drought and dust storms, and move to California to find work and a better life.
Author : Jim Murphy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0590438107
Following her father's death from a disease that swept through her Nebraska town in 1881, teenaged Sarah Jane must find work to support herself and records in her diary her experiences as a young school teacher.
Author : Katelan Janke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0439215994
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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1023726307
Author : Ronald Reis
Publisher : Infobase Holdings, Inc
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438199641
Housewives hung wet sheets and blankets over windows, struggling to seal every crack with gummed paper strips. A man avoided shaking hands, lest the static electricity gathered from a dust storm knock his greeter flat. Children's tears turned to mud. Horses chewed feed filled with dust particles that sandpapered their gums raw. Dead cattle, when pried open, were filled with pounds of gut-clogging dirt. The simplest thing in life, taking a breath, became life-threatening. The Dust Bowl conditions during the "Dirty Thirties" were no blind stroke of nature, but had their origins in human error and in the misuse of the land. The Dust Bowl, Updated Edition recounts the factors that led to the Dust Bowl conditions, how those affected coped, and what can be learned from the tragedy, considered by many to be America's worst prolonged environmental disaster.