ISBN:

• 9780826304858
• 0826304850

Edition: First edition.

Description: xi, 232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:

• Includes index.
• Bibliography: pages 217-228.

Contents:

• Early dust and climate
• The good years
• Causing the Dust Bowl
• 1930s weather
• Depression in the Dust Bowl
• Countercurrents
• Uncle Sam's relief
• Federal policies : land use and conservation
• Wheat and land use
• Living through it all.

LCCN: 78055706

Control Number: 30314

Subjects:

• Agriculture -- Great Plains -- History.
• Depressions -- 1929 -- Great Plains.
• Droughts -- Great Plains -- History.
• Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939.
• Great Plains -- Climate.
• Great Plains -- Economic conditions.
• Great Plains -- History.