Main Title |
The worst hard time : the untold story of those who survived the great American dust bowl / |
Author |
Egan, Timothy,
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Publisher |
Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, |
Year Published |
2006 |
OCLC Number |
58788898 |
ISBN |
9780618346974; 061834697X; 9780618773473; 0618773479; 9781439562581; 143956258X |
Subjects |
Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939 ;
Droughts--Great Plains--History--20th century ;
Dust storms--Great Plains--History--20th century ;
Depressions--1929--Great Plains ;
Great Plains--Social conditions--20th century ;
HISTORY--United States--20th Century ;
Trockenheit ;
Wirtschaftskrise ;
Landwirtschaft ;
Soziale Situation ;
Great Plains--Sèud ;
Droogte ;
Stofstormen ;
Dust storms--History ;
Great Depression, 1929-1939--Great Plains ;
Landwirtschaft--(DE-588)4034402-2 ;
Soziale Situation--(DE-588)4077575-6 ;
Trockenheit--(DE-588)4186270-3 ;
Wirtschaftskrise--(DE-588)4066466-1 ;
Great Plains--Sèud--(DE-588)4460900-0
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Additional Subjects |
Dust Bowl Era (1931-1939)
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Internet Access |
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Holdings |
Library |
Call Number |
Additional Info |
Location |
Last Modified |
Checkout Status |
EJAM |
F595.E38 2006 |
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Region 3 Library/Philadelphia, PA |
10/05/2015 |
ESAM |
F595.E38 2006 |
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Region 10 Library/Seattle,WA |
05/21/2019 |
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Collation |
x, 340 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm |
Notes |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-327) and index. |
Contents Notes |
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. "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 who 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. Drawing on the voices of those who stayed and survived - those who, now in their eighties and nineties, will soon carry their memories to the grave - Egan tells a story of endurance and heroism against the backdrop of the Great Depression."--Jacket. |
Place Published |
Boston |
PUB Date Free Form |
©2006 |
BIB Level |
m |
Content |
text |
Carrier |
volume |
Cataloging Source |
OCLC/T |
LCCN |
2005008057 |
Merged OCLC records |
76910231; 80018700; 733676783; 733713221; 778996829; 824620870; 961903826; 965579154 |
OCLC Time Stamp |
20190515071927 |
Language |
eng |
Origin |
OCLC |
Type |
CAT |
OCLC Rec Leader |
05745cam 2200973 a 45010 |