Dust Bowl Diary

Author : Ann Marie Low
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803279131
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dust Bowl Diary written by Ann Marie Low and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 9780877459323
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Waiting on the Bounty written by Mary Knackstedt Dyck and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2005-02 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remarkable historical document, this diary describes a period before the telephone and indoor plumbing were commonplace in rural homes, a time when farm families in the Plains states were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
Publisher : South Dakota State Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 9781941813294
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Dust Bowl Book of Days, 1932 written by Craig Volk and published by South Dakota State Historical Society. This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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
ISBN 13 : 0806187948
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Letters from the Dust Bowl written by Caroline Henderson and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-10-19 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Don Brown
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547815506
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great American Dust Bowl written by Don Brown and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2013 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 0700602909
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Farming the Dust Bowl written by Lawrence Svobida and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 1986-04-14 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Katelan Janke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780439215992
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Survival in the Storm written by Katelan Janke and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book SURVIVAL IN THE STORM written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ronald Reis
Publisher : Infobase Holdings, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1438199643
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dust Bowl, Updated Edition written by Ronald Reis and published by Infobase Holdings, Inc. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Elizabeth Cobbs
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674258487
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fearless Women written by Elizabeth Cobbs and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-07 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth Cobbs traces the American quest for gender equality back to the Revolution, when the founding principle of equality became a battering ram against hierarchy. These are stories of American women, famous and obscure, who struggled in public and private to secure new rights, defend their freedom, and gain control over their own lives.