Dust Bowl : the southern Plains in the 1930s / Donald Worster.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Worster, Donald, 1941-

Contributor:

James A. Crawford Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dust storms.

History.

Agriculture.

Southwestern States--History--20th century.

Southwestern States.

Great Plains--History--20th century.

Great Plains.

Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939.

Agriculture--Southwestern States--History--20th century.

Agriculture--Great Plains--History--20th century.

Dust storms--Southwestern States--History--20th century.

Dust storms--Great Plains--History--20th century.

Depressions--1929--United States.

Depressions.

United States.

Physical Description:

x, 290 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Edition:

Twenty-fifth anniversary edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.

Summary:

Twenty-five years after his book helped to define the new field of environmental history, Worster links the Dust Bowl to current political, economic, and ecological issues. 66 halftones & maps.

Contents:

Part 1 A Darkling Plain 9

1 The Black Blizzards Roll In 10

2 If It Rains 26

3 Okies and Exodusters 44

Part 2 Prelude to Dust 65

4 What Holds the Earth Together 66

5 Sodbusting 80

Part 3 Cimarron County, Oklahoma 99

6 Frontier in Ruins 100

7 When the Cattle Ate Tumbleweeds 108

8 Hard Times in the Panhandle 118

Part 4 Haskell County, Kansas 139

9 Unsettled Ground 140

10 The Wheat Farmer and the Welfare State 148

11 A Sense of Place 164

Part 5 A New Deal for the Land 181

12 Facing up to Limits 182

13 Learning from Nature 198

14 Make Two Blades of Grass Grow 210

Epilogue: On a Thin Edge 231.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-283) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James A. Crawford Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0195174895

0195174887

OCLC:

55878029