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Author Worster, Donald, 1941-

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

Publication Info. New York : Oxford University Press, 1979.

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  978 W    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  978. W89    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  j978 WOR    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  978 W89D    Check Shelf
Description x, 277 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents A DARKLING PLAIN -- 1 The black blizzards roll in -- 2 If it rains -- 3 Okies and Exodusters -- PRELUDE TO DUST -- 4 What holds the earth together -- 5 Sodbusting -- CIMARRON COUNTY, OKLAHOMA -- 6 Frontier in ruins -- 7 When the cattle ate tumbleweeds -- 8 Hard times in the Panhandle -- HASKELL COUNTY, KANSAS -- 9 Unsettled ground -- 10 The wheat farmer and the welfare state -- 11 A sense of place -- A NEW DEAL FOR THE LAND -- 12 Facing up to limits -- 13 Learning from nature -- 14 Make two blades of grass grow -- Epilogue : on a thin edge.
Subject Southwestern States -- History -- 20th century.
Great Plains -- History -- 20th century.
Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939.
Agriculture -- Southwestern States -- History -- 20th century.
Agriculture -- Great Plains -- History -- 20th century.
Dust storms -- Southwestern States -- History -- 20th century.
Dust storms -- Great Plains -- History -- 20th century.
Depressions -- 1929 -- United States.
Indexed Term United States Southern Great Plains Dust Bowl Economic conditions, 1930-1939
ISBN 0195025504
0195032128 paperback
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