Presents an oral history of the dust storms that devastated the Great Plains during the Depression, following several families and their communities in their struggle to persevere despite the devastation.

Product Description: One giant, black dust storm in April of 1935 became the signature event of a devastating period in the history of the South Plains of the United States. The author, who grew up in Pampa in the Texas Panhandle, gathered a collection of reminiscences, reports, and responses to the storm by individuals who had been in it, and by newspapers that had reported about it, then reflected about the storm during the following years...read more

Product Description: An in-depth look at the historical truth behind the popular myths Whether romantic or tragic, accounts of the dramatic events surrounding the North American Dust Bowl of the dirty thirties unearthed deep anxieities buried in America's ecological imagination...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Whether romantic or tragic, accounts of the dramatic events surrounding the North American Dust Bowl of the “dirty thirties” unearthed anxieties buried deep in America's ecological imagination. Moreover, the images of a landscape of fear remain embedded in the national consciousness today...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Combining the material from the McGraw-Hill Encyclopaedia of Science & Technology and the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, this research tool provides instant access to information in 81 areas of science and engineering...read more

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