The worst hard time : the untold story of those who survived the great American dust bowl
Summary
"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. Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist and author Timothy Egan follows a half-do... Full description
- pt. 1. Promise: the great plowup, 1901-1930.
- The wanderer
- No man's land
- Creating Dalhart
- High plains Deutsch
- Last of the great plowup
- pt. 2. Betrayal, 1931-1933.
- First wave
- A darkening
- In a dry land
- New leader, New Deal
- Big blows
- pt. 3. Blowup, 1934-1939.
- Triage
- The long darkness
- The struggle for air
- Showdown in Dalhart
- Duster's eve
- Black Sunday
- A call to arms
- Goings
- Witnesses
- The saddest land
- Verdict
- Cornhusker II
- The last men
- Cornhusker III
- Rain.