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| Genre/Form: | Sources |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Americans view their Dust Bowl experience. Niwot, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, 1999 (OCoLC)607212849 |
| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
John R Wunder; Frances W Kaye; Vernon Rosco Carstensen |
| ISBN: | 0870815075 9780870815072 9780870816482 0870816489 |
| OCLC Number: | 39275794 |
| Description: | xiv, 429 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Preface --I. Introduction -- II. Contemporary accounts: Plight of farmers in the Great Depression, 1931-1936. Early Dust Bowl distress and anger, 1931-1932 ; The farmers go on strike, 1932-1933 ; Farmers March on Washington, 1932 ; New violence in the Midwest, 1933 ; Drought, heat waves, and dust storms from the Great Plains, 1934-1936 ; Rainmaking and rainmakers -- III. Historians view the dust bowl years. Men, women, and children - the personal response ; Vehicles for expressing the farmers' rage - institutional activism -- IV. Searching for explanations -- media response -- V. Historical overviews -- Modern bibliography of the dust bowl / by Jay H. Buckley. |
| Responsibility: | edited by John R. Wunder, Frances W. Kaye, and Vernon Carstensen. |
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- Great Plains -- History -- 20th century -- Sources.
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