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Author |
: Ronald Reis |
Publisher |
: Infobase Holdings, Inc |
Total Pages |
: 114 |
Release |
: 2021-04-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781438199641 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1438199643 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Dust Bowl, Updated Edition by : Ronald Reis
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.
Author |
: Donald Worster |
Publisher |
: New York : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 290 |
Release |
: 1982 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0195032128 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780195032123 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis Dust Bowl by : Donald Worster
In the mid 1930s, North America's Great Plains faced one of the worst man-made environmental disasters in world history. Donald Worster's classic chronicle of the devastating years between 1929 and 1939 tells the story of the Dust Bowl in ecological as well as human terms.Now, twenty-five years after his book helped to define the new field of environmental history, Worster shares his more recent thoughts on the subject of the land and how humans interact with it. In a new afterword, he links the Dust Bowl to current political, economic and ecological issues--including the American livestock industry's exploitation of the Great Plains, and the on-going problem of desertification, which has now become a global phenomenon. He reflects on the state of the plains today and the threat of a new dustbowl. He outlines some solutions that have been proposed, such as "the Buffalo Commons," where deer, antelope, bison and elk would once more roam freely, and suggests that we may yet witness a Great Plains where native flora and fauna flourish while applied ecologists show farmers how to raise food on land modeled after the natural prairies that once existed.
Author |
: Dayton Duncan |
Publisher |
: Chronicle Books |
Total Pages |
: 235 |
Release |
: 2012-10-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781452119151 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1452119155 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Dust Bowl by : Dayton Duncan
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 |
: Rebecca Langston-George |
Publisher |
: Capstone |
Total Pages |
: 33 |
Release |
: 2015 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781491418406 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1491418400 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Primary Source History of the Dust Bowl by : Rebecca Langston-George
"Uses primary sources to tell the story of the Dust Bowl"--
Author |
: Jerry Stanley |
Publisher |
: Knopf Books for Young Readers |
Total Pages |
: 98 |
Release |
: 2014-11-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780307792471 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0307792471 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp by : Jerry Stanley
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 |
: Carter Revard |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 256 |
Release |
: 2001 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015050540965 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis Winning the Dust Bowl by : Carter Revard
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 |
: Don Brown |
Publisher |
: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages |
: 85 |
Release |
: 2013 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780547815503 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0547815506 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Great American Dust Bowl by : Don Brown
The causes and results of the Dust Bowl and how the lessons learned are still used today. Presented in comic book format.
Author |
: David Booth |
Publisher |
: Kids Can Press Ltd |
Total Pages |
: 40 |
Release |
: 1996 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1550742957 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781550742954 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Dust Bowl by : David Booth
A young boy listens to his grandfather's story of farm life during the Dust Bowl years.
Author |
: Mathew Paul Bonnifield |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 264 |
Release |
: 1979 |
ISBN-10 |
: UVA:X000004327 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Dust Bowl by : Mathew Paul Bonnifield
Author |
: Lawrence Svobida |
Publisher |
: University Press of Kansas |
Total Pages |
: 255 |
Release |
: 1986-04-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780700602902 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0700602909 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis Farming the Dust Bowl by : Lawrence Svobida
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.