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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl

Timothy Egan

What happened when settlers plowed up the grass of the southern plains, and how did the families who stayed live through the dust?

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Timothy Egan

Why read it

  • You will understand how plowing up the southern plains led to the dust storms of the nineteen thirties
  • You will see what months of dust did to the health and daily life of ordinary farm families
  • You will understand why this land and its weather ask for humility from the people who settle it

Who it is for

  • A farmer facing drought who wonders what the land can bear
  • A policy minded reader asking what governments can repair after a disaster
  • A traveler to the Great Plains who wants to know its past

Contents

  1. Introduction: Live Through This
  2. I PROMISE
  3. The Great Plowup 1901–1930
  4. 1. The Wanderer
  5. 2. No Man's Land
  6. 3. Creating Dalhart
  7. 4. High Plains Deutsch
  8. 5. Last of the Great Plowup
  9. II BETRAYAL
  10. 1931–1933
  11. 6. First Wave
  12. 7. A Darkening
  13. 8. In a Dry Land
  14. 9. New Leader, New Deal
  15. 10. Big Blows
  16. III BLOWUP
  17. 1934-1939
  18. 11. Triage
  19. 12. The Long Darkness
  20. 13. The Struggle for Air
  21. 14. Showdown in Dalhart
  22. 15. Duster's Eve
  23. 16. Black Sunday
  24. 17. A Call to Arms
  25. 18. Goings
  26. 19. Witnesses
  27. 20. The Saddest Land
  28. 21. Verdict
  29. 22. Cornhusker II
  30. 23. The Last Men
  31. 24. Cornhusker III
  32. 25. Rain
  33. Epilogue

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