Charles River Editors
ASIN: B01J47JOQU
Publisher: Charles River Editors (July 25, 2016)
Pages: 42
*Includes pictures*Includes newspaper accounts and individual accounts of the heat wave*Includes online resources and 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 While farmers were planting crops, the seeds were also being sown for a natural disaster once a severe drought hit the prairie land in the 1930s. Due to a lack of proper dryland farming methods, wind erosion and the drought combined to create horrific dust storms that devastated wide swathes of Great Plains and even ...