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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.
  • Frontmatter
  • Introduction (page 3)
  • PART ONE: A DARKLING PLAIN (page 9)
  • 1. The Black Blizzards Role In (page 10)
  • 2. If It Rains (page 26)
  • 3. Okies and Exodusters (page 44)
  • PART TWO: PRELUDE TO DUST (page 65)
  • 4. What Holds the Earth Together (page 66)
  • 5. Sodbusting (page 80)
  • PART THREE: CIMARRON COUNTY, OKLAHOMA (page 99)
  • 6. Frontier in Ruins (page 100)
  • 7. When the Cattle Ate Tumbleweeds (page 108)
  • 8. Hard Times in the Panhandle (page 118)
  • PART FOUR: HASKELL COUNTY, KANSAS (page 139)
  • 9. Unsettled Ground (page 140)
  • 10. The Wheat Farmer and the Welfare State (page 148)
  • 11. A Sense of Place (page 164)
  • PART FIVE: A NEW DEAL FOR THE LAND (page 181)
  • 12. Facing up to Limits (page 182)
  • 13. Learning from Nature (page 198)
  • 14. Make Two Blades of Grass Grow (page 210)
  • Epilogue: On a Thin Edge (page 231)
  • Afterword (page 244)
  • Notes (page 255)
  • Index (page 285)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
RAH 8.4 (Dec. 1980): 535-540 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0048-7511%28198012%298%3A4%3C535%3ADVEDAE%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Z
JAH 67.1 (Jun. 1980): 190-191 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-8723%28198006%2967%3A1%3C190%3ADBTSPI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-8
AHR 85.3 (Jun. 1980): 732-733 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28198006%2985%3A3%3C732%3ADBTSPI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-0
AATW 22.4 (Winter. 1980): 374-375 http://www.jstor.org/stable/40168981
JAMST 15.3 (Dec. 1981): 439-440 http://www.jstor.org/stable/27554055
HECO 8.4 (Dec. 1980): 414-416 http://www.jstor.org/stable/4602576
PHR 50.2 (May. 1981): 271-274 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3638748
AgH 54.2 (Apr. 1980): 366-367 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3743059
TC 48.2 (Apr. 2007): 377-385 http://www.jstor.org/stable/40061477
WAL 15.1 (Spring. 1980): 59-60 http://www.jstor.org/stable/43018361
GPQ 1.1 (Winter. 1981): 70-72 http://www.jstor.org/stable/24467571
SHQ 83.4 (Apr. 1980): 415-416 http://www.jstor.org/stable/30238652
WHQ 11.4 (Oct. 1980): 438-439 http://www.jstor.org/stable/968295
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Published: 2004
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780195174885 (paper)
  • 9780195174892 (hardcover)
  • 9780199758692 (ebook)
Subject
  • Environmental History
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