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Author
Series
Publisher
Bearport Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
On April 14, 1935 in Boise City, Oklahoma, the sky turned black as a massive, swirling cloud of dust engulfed the city. "It got so dark that you couldn't see your hand before your face," remembered one farmer. Blinded drivers drove their cars off the side of the road. Terrified cows spun in circles. People covered their faces, gasping for breath. This was one of many dark days during the Dust Bowl. Sick Soil: The Dust Bowltraces the tragic story of...
24) Dust Bowl Diary
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Description
Presents the author's diary which describes a rural North Dakota family's life from 1927-1937--the Dust Bowl years, economic hardships, restrictions on women, and family frustrations.
Author
Publisher
12-Story Library
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Offers 12 different views on the environmental disaster that lasted for years. Each page provides information about what happened during the Dust Bowl and how it affected different people, along with interesting sidebars, questions to consider, and historical images.
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
©1984
Description
"In 1974, Bill Ganzel ... went on the road to photograph the aftermath of the Dust Bowl and to interview its victims forty years after the Great Depression. For seven years, carrying copies of [FSA photographs, taken between 1935 and 1942], Ganzel sought the same people and scenes that the FSA workers had photographed."--P.[2] of cover.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Description
With a touch of magic and a harvest of hope, a young orphan and her exceptional elephant set out to change the destiny of a dying town, devastated by a decade of dust storms, proving that from the smallest seeds grow the greatest friendships.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First edition.
Formats
Description
In Kansas in the year 1937, eleven-year-old Jack Clark faces his share of ordinary challenges: local bullies, his father's failed expectations, a little sister with an eye for trouble. But he also has to deal with the effects of the Dust Bowl, including rising tensions in his small town and the spread of a shadowy illness
34) The dust bowl
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
Widescreen.
Description
Ken Burns documents the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history, when a frenzied wheat boom on the southern Plains, followed by a decade-long drought during the 1930s, nearly swept away the breadbasket of the nation. Vivid interviews, dramatic photographs, and seldom-seen movie footage bring to life incredible stories of human suffering and perseverance. Includes bonus features.
Author
Publisher
Ensign Peak
Pub. Date
℗♭2015.
Description
"Paul's family has struggled to make ends meet during the devastating dust storms of the Midwest. When a family arrives in need, Jake must choose between helping the family or saving his beloved calf. A Christmas miracle helps him learn the true meaning of the season"--
Author
Series
American horse tales volume 1
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"A young girl named Ginny and her family must leave their farm in Oklahoma and travel west to California. In order to survive, the family must sell their horse, and Ginny's best friend, Thimble. But Ginny will do anything in order to find a way for them to stay together"--
Author
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
First edition.
Description
The 1930s exodus of "Okies" dispossessed by repeated droughts and failed crop prices was a relatively brief interlude in the history of migrant agricultural labor. Yet it attracted wide attention through the publication of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath (1939) and the images of Farm Security Administration photographers such as Dorothea Lange and Arthur Rothstein. Ironically, their work risked sublimating the subjects-real people and actual...
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