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Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Before the drought of the early twenty-first century, the dry benchmark in the American plains was the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. But in this eye-opening work, Kevin Z. Sweeney reveals that the Dust Bowl was only one cycle in a series of droughts on the U.S. southern plains. Reinterpreting our nations nineteenth-century history through paleoclimatological data and firsthand accounts of four dry periods in the 1800s, Prelude to the Dust Bowl demonstrates...
Author
Pub. Date
©2001
Description
"In May 1936 Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace wrote to Caroline Henderson to praise her contributions to American "understanding of some of our farm problems." His comments reflected the national attention aroused by Henderson's articles, which had been published in Atlantic Monthly since 1931. Even today, Henderson's articles - notably "Letters from the Dust Bowl" - are frequently cited for her vivid descriptions of the dust storms that...
64) Mega disasters
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
Asteroid apocalypse: Computer animations, models, and re-creations examine how an impact on the American west coast could spell disaster for the nation. Atlantis apocalypse: Computer animations, models, and re-creations examine how another eruption of the Santorini Volcano, like the one 3,500 years ago, could affect people today.
American volcano: Computer animations, models, and re-creations examine what would happen if Mt. Rainier erupted like...
65) Days of sand
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
A moving and unforgettable tale, inspired by real-life stories of courage and perseverance during the Dust Bowl of 1930s AmericaUnited States, 1937. In the middle of the Great Depression, 22-year-old photographer John Clark is brought in by the Farm Security Administration to document the calamitous conditions of the Dust Bowl in the central and southern states, in order to bring the farmers’ plight to the public eye. When he starts working through...
Author
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
The dust storms that terrorized America's High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before. Egan tells the epic story of this environmental disaster and its impact on the communities stricken with fear and choked by dust in the "dirty thirties". This is the story of those who stayed and survived, those who, now in their eighties and nineties, will soon carry their memories to the grave and it is an extraordinary...