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Dust Bowl: the southern Plains in the 1930s
Donald Worster
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Personal recollections recreate experiences of two Dust Bowl communities.
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Frontmatter
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Introduction (page 3)
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PART ONE: A DARKLING PLAIN (page 9)
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1. The Black Blizzards Role In (page 10)
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2. If It Rains (page 26)
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3. Okies and Exodusters (page 44)
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PART TWO: PRELUDE TO DUST (page 65)
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4. What Holds the Earth Together (page 66)
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5. Sodbusting (page 80)
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PART THREE: CIMARRON COUNTY, OKLAHOMA (page 99)
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6. Frontier in Ruins (page 100)
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7. When the Cattle Ate Tumbleweeds (page 108)
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8. Hard Times in the Panhandle (page 118)
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PART FOUR: HASKELL COUNTY, KANSAS (page 139)
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9. Unsettled Ground (page 140)
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10. The Wheat Farmer and the Welfare State (page 148)
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11. A Sense of Place (page 164)
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PART FIVE: A NEW DEAL FOR THE LAND (page 181)
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12. Facing up to Limits (page 182)
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13. Learning from Nature (page 198)
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14. Make Two Blades of Grass Grow (page 210)
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Epilogue: On a Thin Edge (page 231)
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Afterword (page 244)
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Notes (page 255)
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Index (page 285)
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Published: 2004
Publisher: Oxford University Press
- 9780195174885 (paper)
- 9780195174892 (hardcover)
- 9780199758692 (ebook)