The worst hard time

the untold story of those who survived the great American dust bowl

340 pages

English language

Published Oct. 30, 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Co..

ISBN:
978-0-618-34697-4
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The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan uses compelling storytelling and primary sources to tell the tale of how market incentives and ecological ignorance caused millions of tons of top soil to escape skyward and rain down in dust storms across the country. The similarities between the Dust Bowl and climate change are crushing. Egan's history of the Dust Bowl is worth your time.

Subjects

  • Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939
  • Droughts -- Great Plains -- History -- 20th century
  • Dust storms -- Great Plains -- History -- 20th century
  • Depressions -- 1929 -- Great Plains
  • Great Plains -- History -- 20th century
  • Great Plains -- Social conditions -- 20th century