Worst Hard Time The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl: a National Book Award Winner

Name: Worst Hard Time The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl: a National Book Award Winner
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ISBN: 9780618773473

ISBN-10: 0618773479

ISBN-13: 9780618773473

Edition: 2005

Authors: Timothy Egan

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The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since. Timothy Egan"s critically acclaimed account rescues this iconic chapter of American history from the shadows in a tour de force of historical reportage. Following a dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, Egan tells of their desperate attempts to carry on through blinding black dust blizzards, crop failure, and the death of loved ones. Brilliantly capturing the terrifying drama of catastrophe, Egan does equal justice to the human characters who become his heroes, "the stoic, long-suffering men and women whose lives he opens…

Book details

List price: $18.99
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 9/1/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Introduction: Live Through This



Promise: The Great Plowup, 19011930



The Wanderer



No Man's Land



Creating Dalhart



High Plains Deutsch



Last of the Great Plowup



Betrayal, 19311933



First Wave



A Darkening



In a Dry Land



New Leader, New Deal



Big Blows



Blowup, 19341939



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


Epilogue


Notes and Sources


Acknowledgments


Index