Dust Bowl Diary

Name: Dust Bowl Diary
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ISBN: 9780803279131

ISBN-10: 0803279132

ISBN-13: 9780803279131

Edition: 1984

Authors: Ann Marie Low, Ann Low

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“Life in what the newspapers call ‘the Dust Bowl’ is becoming a gritty nightmare,” Ann Marie Low wrote in 1934. Her diary vividly captures that “gritty nightmare” as it was lived by one rural family—and by millions of other Americans. nbsp; The books opens in 1927—“the last of the good years”—when Ann Marie is a teenager living with her parents, brother, and sister on a stock farm in southeastern North Dakota. We follow her family and friends, descendants of homesteaders, through the next ten years—a time of searing summer heat and desiccated fields, dying livestock, dust to the tops of fence posts and prices at rock bottom—a time when whole communities lost their homes and livelihoods to…

Book details

List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 1984
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 12/1/1984
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 188
Size: 5.28" wide x 8.51" long x 0.40" tall
Weight: 0.550