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050	0	0	_aF595 _b.E38 2006
082	0	0	_a978/.032 _222
100	1		_aEgan, Timothy _eauthor. _0(DLC)n 85281131
245	1	4	_aThe worst hard time : _bthe untold story of those who survived the great American dust bowl / _cTimothy Egan.
264		1	_aBoston : _bHoughton Mifflin Co.
264		4	_c©2006
300			_ax, 340 pages : _billustrations, map ; _c24 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
380			_aBook _2tlcgt
385			_aGeneral _2tlctarget
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 315-327) and index
520			_aOn April 14, 1935, the biggest dust storm on record descended over five states, from the Dakotas to Amarillo, Texas. People standing a few feet apart could not see each other; if they touched, they risked being knocked over by the static electricity that the dust created in the air. The Dust Bowl was the product of reckless, market-driven farming that had so abused the land that, when dry weather came, the wind lifted up millions of acres of topsoil and whipped it around in "black blizzards," which blew as far east as New York. This ecological disaster rapidly disfigured whole communities. Egan's portraits of the families who stayed behind are sobering and far less familiar than those of the "exodusters" who staggered out of the High Plains. He tells of towns depopulated to this day, a mother who watched her baby die of "dust pneumonia," and farmers who gathered tumbleweed as food for their cattle and, eventually, for their children.
650		0	_aDust Bowl Era, 1931-1939. _0(DLC)sh2003003074
650		0	_aDroughts _zGreat Plains _xHistory _y20th century. _0(DLC)sh 85039663
650		0	_aDust storms _zGreat Plains _xHistory _y20th century. _0(DLC)sh 85040086
650		0	_aDepressions _y1929 _zGreat Plains. _0(DLC)sh 85037057
651		0	_aGreat Plains _xHistory _y20th century. _0(DLC)sh 85056998
651		0	_aGreat Plains _xSocial conditions _y20th century. _0(DLC)sh 85056998
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856	4	1	_3Table of contents only _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0602/2005008057.html
856	4	2	_3Publisher description _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0622/2005008057-d.html
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856	4	2	_3Contributor biographical information _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0736/2005008057-b.html
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