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Americans view their Dust Bowl experience

Author: John R Wunder; Frances W Kaye; Vernon Rosco Carstensen
Publisher: Niwot, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, 1999.
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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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