The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
The Worst Hard Time : The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl, by Timothy Egan, reviewed by Bill O’Brien, Zauel Memorial Library (Houghton Mifflin, 2006, $28.00, 340 pp.)
As sodbusters settled onto America’s grassy plains, they created a man-made disaster now known as the Dust Bowl. An eight year drought began in 1931, and the first dust storm arrived a year later. Great black clouds of dust 10,000 feet high smothered the plains and brought misery in the form of “Dust Pneumonia” clogging lungs with layers of dust.
Eagan interviews some of the survivors of this time and offers vivid descriptions based on first hand accounts.
As sodbusters settled onto America’s grassy plains, they created a man-made disaster now known as the Dust Bowl. An eight year drought began in 1931, and the first dust storm arrived a year later. Great black clouds of dust 10,000 feet high smothered the plains and brought misery in the form of “Dust Pneumonia” clogging lungs with layers of dust.
Eagan interviews some of the survivors of this time and offers vivid descriptions based on first hand accounts.
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