dust storms

A collection of letters and articles written by Caroline Henderson between 1908 and 1966 which provide insight into her life in the Great Plains, featuring both published materials and private correspondence. Includes a biographical profile, chapter introductions, and annotations.

Orry, a ten-year-old boy living in Kansas during the Great Depression, grows tired of having to stay inside because of the dust and takes his stepsister on an outing, only to become caught in the black blizzard that ravaged the drought-stricken area on April 14, 1935.

Describes the factors that contributed to the dust storms that swept America during the 1930s, turning the Great Plains into what has come to be known as the Dust Bowl, looks at how people coped with the dangerous conditions, and discusses the possibility that a similar environmental disaster could occur again.

An illustrated description of the dust storms that blew across the American Midwest in the 1930's.

Great-grandma Annie reminisces about life on her family's Oklahoma farm during the terrible drought of the 1930s when the region was known as the "Dust Bowl.".

Describes what it was like to live in the Great Plains during the 1930s and discusses how dry weather and dust storms affected the area.

Provides a brief description, through the story of one family, of the Dust Bowl, a series of dust storms that forced hundreds of thousands of families to leave their homes and farms and migrate away from the Great Plains area of the United States between 1930 and 1939.

A fictional eleven-year-old Kansas girl chronicles the first six months of 1935, describing the sacrifices her family makes and the entertainments they still enjoy in the midst of the Depression, and the struggles of farm life during the Dust Bowl.

Chronicles the plight of farmers living in the Dust Bowl in the 1930s, discussing the social upheaval that accompanied the loss of their livelihood and the official programs and reforms enacted by the federal government to help them.

Focuses on the experiences of children during the Dust Bowl era of the 1930s, when prolonged drought, coupled with farming techniques, caused massive erosion from Texas to Canada's wheat fields.