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Years of dust : the story of the Dust Bowl
Edition
1st ed.
Publication Information
New York : Dutton Children's Books, 2009.
Physical Description
128 p. : ill. ; 24 x 29 cm.
Summary
The causes and results of the Dust Bowl and how the lessons learned are still used today.
Contents
- Darkness at noon
- The Great Plains world
- Conquering the Great Plains
- The coming of the farmers
- In hard times
- Dust Bowl days
- Refugees in their own land
- The New Deal
- Future dust bowls.
Subjects
- Depressions > 1929 > Great Plains.
- Dust storms > Great Plains > History > 20th century.
- Droughts > Great Plains > History > 20th century.
- Farm life > Great Plains > History > 20th century.
- Farmers > Great Plains > History > 20th century.
- Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939.
- Great Plains > History > 20th century.
- Great Plains > Social conditions > 20th century.