Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (Audio)
ISBN:
9781400122202 (1400122201)
Publish date: January 25th 2006
Publisher: Tantor Media Inc
Edition language: English
Category:
Adventure,
History,
Literature,
Book Club,
Survival,
American,
Historical Fiction,
20th Century,
Environment,
Nature,
Economics,
American History,
Americana
This book managed at times to almost move me to tears of compassion for the people affected by the Great Depression and absolute white-hot rage at how the land was treated. First about the people: insofar as they suffered from the economic effects of the Great Depression and the accompanying colla...
"After more than sixty-five years, some of the land is still sterile and drifting. But in the heart of the old Dust Bowl now are three national grasslands run by the Forest Servie. The land is green in the spring and burns in the summer, as it did in the past, and antelope come through and graze, wa...
My family lived this story so I may be a little bit prejudiced toward it. This is a history of people who lived through the Dust Bowl and my family, grandparents and mom, did just that. My mother owns the book but hasn't been able to read it yet because it is too painful. If you aren't familiar w...
It's not a bad book, but it's very history-y. I need mine wrapped up in cheese before I can chow down, sadly.
Reading this book, the word that came most often to mind was “apocalypse.” I’d heard of the dust bowl but never realized what a harrowing, long-lasting catastrophe it was. The descriptions of the storms, which could as easily have been dubbed dirt storms, were frightening and fascinating. They were ...
6 years ago
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