ASIN: B00NHUPOOC
Publisher: Charles River Editors
Pages: 56
*Includes pictures*Includes accounts of the Dust Bowl and dust storms by farmers, wives, and children*Includes a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contents“People caught in their own yards grope for the doorstep. Cars come to a standstill, for no light in the world can penetrate that swirling murk…. The nightmare is deepest during the storms. But on the occasional bright day and the usual gray day we cannot shake from it. We live with the dust, eat it, sleep with it, watch it strip us of possessions and the hope of possessions." – Avis D. Carlson “How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can't scare him – he has known a fear beyond every other.” – John Steinbeck, The Grapes of WrathIt is almost impossible to imagine today, but in the late 19th century and early 20th century, there ...
