Dust Bowl Grit
Dust Bowl Grit

Author: Dr James D Likens

Publisher:

Published: 2018-01-31

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9780692167199

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I was delivered into the world at taxpayer expense. A welfare baby. An Okie. My first home was a tent at the federal government's Weedpatch Camp, where the Joad family settled after they made it to California, in John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. Three decades later I had earned my BA, MBA, and Ph.D. degrees. For the next forty-six years I served as professor of economics at one of the nation's top-rated colleges. I also led a highly-regarded management school. Along the way I worked in consulting, served on boards of directors, testified as an expert witness in legal cases, and even lobbied successfully in the US Congress. Yet I do not consider myself a "self-made man." All my life I have been impressed with the power of encouragement from good people to change the course of the lives of others, including my own, by acts of kindness and encouragement and generosity. Such has been my lifelong lesson in dignity and grace.

Letters from the Dust Bowl
Letters from the Dust Bowl

Author: Caroline Henderson

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9780806135403

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A collection of letters and articles written by Caroline Henderson between 1908 and 1966 which provide insight into her life in the Great Plains, featuring both published materials and private correspondence. Includes a biographical profile, chapter introductions, and annotations.

The Great American Dust Bowl
The Great American Dust Bowl

Author: Don Brown

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 85

ISBN-13: 0547815506

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The causes and results of the Dust Bowl and how the lessons learned are still used today. Presented in comic book format.

Dust Bowl
Dust Bowl

Author: Donald Worster

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2004-09-16

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9780195174885

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Personal recollections recreate experiences of two Dust Bowl communities

The Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl

Author: Sue Vander Hook

Publisher: ABDO

Published: 2009-01-01

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 9781604535129

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An introduction to the causes, events, and consequences of the extreme drought and dust storms that affected the Great Plains during the 1930s.

Documents of the Dust Bowl
Documents of the Dust Bowl

Author: R. Douglas Hurt

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2019-04-01

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13:

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This book provides a unique, thorough, and indispensable resource for anyone investigating the causes and consequences of the Dust Bowl. During the 1930s, drought and the cultivation of submarginal lands created a severe wind-erosion problem in the southern Great Plains, a region that became known as the Dust Bowl. During the worst dust storms, the blowing soil often turned day into night. Some people died when caught outside during a black blizzard, others developed "dust pneumonia," and some residents moved to California. Most people, however, remained. Those who stayed and endured the storms had an abiding faith that federal resources and the return of normal rainfall would end the dust storms and return life to normal, free from the desperation and fear caused by the blowing soil. Documents of the Dust Bowl offers a fascinating documentary history of one of the worst ecological disasters in American history. It will enable high school students and academics alike to study the manner in which Dust Bowl residents confronted and endured the dust storms in the southern Great Plains during the 1930s.

The Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl

Author: R. Douglas Hurt

Publisher: Taylor Trade Publications

Published: 1981

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 9780882295411

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The Dust Bowl, Updated Edition
The Dust Bowl, Updated Edition

Author: Ronald Reis

Publisher: Infobase Holdings, Inc

Published: 2021-04-01

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 1438199643

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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.

Study Guide for Book Clubs: The Four Winds
Study Guide for Book Clubs: The Four Winds

Author: Kathryn Cope

Publisher: Kathryn Cope

Published: 2021-05-19

Total Pages: 55

ISBN-13:

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An essential tool for all book clubs! No reading group should be without this companion to Kristin Hannah's best-selling novel, The Four Winds. This comprehensive book club guide features useful background to the novel, a full plot summary, discussion of themes & symbols, detailed character notes, 31 thought-provoking discussion questions, and even a quick quiz. Study Guides for Book Clubs help you get the best from your book club meetings. These high-quality guides enable readers to appreciate challenging works of literature in greater depth. Please be aware that this is a companion guide and does not contain the full text of the novel.

Dust Bowl
Dust Bowl

Author: Janette-Susan Bailey

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-10-04

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 1137589078

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This book takes the Dust Bowl story beyond Depression America to describe the ‘dust bowl’ concept as a transnational phenomenon, where during World War Two, US and Australian national mythologies converged. Dust Bowl begins with Depression America, the New Deal and the US Dust Bowl where massive dust storms darkened the skies of the Great Plains and triggered a major national and international media event and generated imagery describing a failed yeoman dream, Dust Bowl refugees, and the coming of a new American Desert. Dust Bowl traces the evolution of this imagery to Australia, World War Two and New Deal-inspired stories of conservation-mindedness, soil erosion and enemies, sheep-farmers and traitors, creeping deserts and human extinction, super-human housewives and natural disaster and finally, grand visions of a nation-building post-war scheme for Australia’s iconic Snowy River‒that vision became the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Scheme.