The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
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| Rating | : | 4.97 (696 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B000FEBQJU |
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| Number of Pages | : | 318 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-10-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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But the plague was man-made, as Egan shows: the plains weren't suited to farming, and plowing up the grass to plant wheat, along with a confluence of economic disaster—the Depression—and natural disaster—eight years of drought—resulted in an ecological and human catastrophe that Egan details with stunning specificity. From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Egan tells an extraordinary tale in this visceral account of how America's great, grassy plains turned to dust, and how the ferocious plains winds stirred up an endless series
Combining the human drama of Isaac's Storm with the sweep of The American People in the Great Depression, The Worst Hard Time is a lasting and important work of American history.. The dust storms that terrorized America's High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since, and the stories of the people that held on have never been fully told. He follows their desperate attempts to carry on through blinding black blizzards, crop failure, and the death of loved ones. Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times journalist and author Timothy Egan follows a half-dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, going from sod huts to new framed houses to huddling in basements with the windows sealed by damp sheets in a futile effort to keep the dust out. Drawing on the voices of those who stayed and survived-those who, now in their eighties and nineties, will soon carry their memories to the grave-Egan tells a story of endurance and heroism against the backdrop of the Great Depression.Egan captures the very voice of the time-its grit, pathos, and abiding heroism-as only great history can
A journey into the past John W Chaplin I was born in 1935 and lived in southern Kansas until 1955. I remember some of the dust storms as if it was yesterday. I recently read my mother's 1935 diary and she frequently mentioned the terrible dust storms. I was very young during the Great Depression, but I still remember Mills, which were ten to equal one penny. I was listening to the radio when Franklin D. Rosevelt announced the attack on Pearl Harbor and December 7th, 1941 as a day that will live in infamy. My grandparents lived on a farm in northern Oklahoma. To . "Timothy Egan did a great job!" according to Lourdes. Excellent history book. Before I read this book, I had very little knowledge of what so many Americans went thru during the "Dirty Thirties." The author did a great job not just retelling the story of that period, but making it personal; depicting how hard many of the families had it back then. Their triumphs due to hard work and their painful losses. People lost so much and suffered so long. How the Comanche and other Native American tribes were moved out of the Great Plains. I learned so much about this environmental disa. "It is pretty hard" according to Gina M. Harris. This book is so amazingly timely, not just for the aspect of the man-made contributions to natural disaster happening at a time of economic hardship, but also for a lot of the political aspects of it, and of course for the human aspects. People don't change so much.I did watch the Dust Bowl miniseries first, and they do cover some of the same ground, though with different focuses, but I feel like you get more details from this book.To be fair, it is rough. There are a few main people that you follow and they are constantly