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The dust storms that terrorized America's High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since, and the stories of the people that held on have never been fully told. Pulitzer Prize-winning New York times journalist and author Timothy Egan follows a half-dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, going from sod huts to new framed houses to huddling in basements with the windows...
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IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
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On April 14, 1935 in Boise City, Oklahoma, the sky turned black as a massive, swirling cloud of dust engulfed the city. "It got so dark that you couldn't see your hand before your face," remembered one farmer. Blinded drivers drove their cars off the side of the road. Terrified cows spun in circles. People covered their faces, gasping for breath. This was one of many dark days during the Dust Bowl. Sick Soil: The Dust Bowltraces the tragic story of...
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c2008
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"Take a front row seat on a period of U.S. history from 1930-1940 when America's heartland was ravaged by a weather phenomenon that became known as a "black blizzard." Watch as scientists and special effects experts recreate the black blizzards in amazing detail and reveal that this was a man-made disaster. Discover how these phenomena form, what they're made of, and how they affect people's health and the environment. Learn how a black blizzard emerged...
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The author of Blood Orchid explores the history of the Sioux alongside that of his own family in this posthumous work.
When award-winning author Charles Bowden died in 2014, he left behind a trove of unpublished manuscripts. Dakotah marks the landmark publication of the first of these texts, and the fourth installment in his acclaimed "Unnatural History of America." Bowden uses America's Great Plains as a lens-sometimes sullied, sometimes shattered,...
14) The Dust Bowl
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c2002
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Discusses the disastrous drought in the United States during the 1930s which made a "dust bowl" out of part of the Great Plains, which caused great hardship for farmers, and the enactment of programs and reforms to help the people and land.
15) Dust Bowl Diary
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Presents the author's diary which describes a rural North Dakota family's life from 1927-1937--the Dust Bowl years, economic hardships, restrictions on women, and family frustrations.
16) The Dust Bowl
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c2008
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Housewives hung wet sheets and blankets over windows, struggling to seal every crack with gummed paper strips. A man avoided shaking hands, lest the static electricity gathered from a dust storm knock his greeter flat. Children's tears turned to mud. Horses chewed feed filled with dust particles that sandpapered their gums raw. Dead cattle, when pried open, were filled with pounds of gut-clogging dirt. The simplest thing in life, taking a breath,...
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1998.
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The drought of 1931 brought financial and emotional ruin to thousands of families in the Southern Plains. The "film presents the remarkable story of the determined people who clung to their homes and way of life, enduring drought, dust, disease - even death - for nearly a decade".
20) The Dust Bowl
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2009.
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IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 2
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An introduction to the causes, events, and consequences of the extreme drought and dust storms that affected the Great Plains during the 1930s.