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The worst hard time : the untold story of those who survived the great American dust bowl

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  • Running Time: 11:44 hrs
    Narrator: Patrick Lawlor
    Publisher:
    Tantor Media, 2018
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

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  • Author: Egan, Timothy
    Contributor: OneClick Digital (Firm); Lawlor, Patrick G.
    Edition: Unabridged
    Date:
    Created
    2011
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    Copyrighted
    2006
    Summary:

    The dust storms that terrorized America's High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since, and the stories of the people that held on have never been fully told. Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist and author Timothy Egan follows a half-dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, going from sod homes to new framed houses to huddling in basements with the windows sealed by damp sheets in a futile effort to keep the dust out. He follows their desperate attempts to carry on through blinding black blizzards, crop failure, and the deaths of loved ones. Drawing on the voices of those who stayed and survived - those who, now in their eighties and nineties, will soon carry their memories to the grave - Egan tells a story of endurance and heroism against the backdrop of the Great Depression.

    Original Publisher: [Old Saybrook, CT], [Prince Frederick, Md.], Tantor Media, [Distributed by] OneClick Digital
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781400122202