Dust Bowl : the southern Plains in the 1930s / Donald Worster.

Author/creator Worster, Donald, 1941-
Format Electronic
Edition25th anniversary ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Description1 online resource (x, 290 pages) : illustrations, maps
Supplemental ContentEBSCOhost
Subjects

Physical mediumillustration
Physical mediummap
SeriesACLS Humanites E-book
ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Contents A darkling plain. The black blizzards roll in ; If it rains ; Okies and exodusters -- Prelude to dust. What holds the earth together ; Sodbusting -- Cimarron County, Oklahoma. Frontier in ruins ; When the cattle ate tumbleweeds ; Hard times in the Panhandle -- Haskell County, Kansas. Unsettled ground ; The wheat farmer and the welfare state ; A sense of place -- A New Deal for the land. Facing up to limits ; Learning from nature ; Make two blades of grass grow ; Epilogue : on a thin edge.
Abstract Personal recollections recreate experiences of two Dust Bowl communities.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 255-283) and index.
Source of descriptionPrint version record.
Issued in other formPrint version: Worster, Donald, 1941- Dust Bowl. 25th anniversary ed. New York : Oxford University Press, 2004 0195174895 9780195174892
Issued in other formPrint version: Worster. Dust Bowl : The Southern Plains in The 1930s. Cary : Oxford University Press USA - OSO, ©2004 9780195174885
Genre/formHistory
LCCN 2004054703
ISBN9780199758692 (electronic bk.)
ISBN0199758697 (electronic bk.)
ISBN9780195032123 (paperback)
ISBN0195032128 (paperback)
Stock numberACLS Load May 2020
Stock numberACLS Humanities E-Books

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