dust storms

Discusses the causes and effects of the disastrous dust storms that hit the Great Plains in the 1930s.

In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression.

Examines the causes of the Dust Bowl, discusses its effects, and provides primary source quotes and photographs.

Eleven-year-old Annie and her friend Violet tell of the hardships endured by their families when dust storms, drought, and the Great Depression hit rural Oklahoma.

Contains newspaper accounts, letters, interviews, memoirs, songs, government documents, and other writings and photographs that provide insight into the problems of the Great Depression, focusing on conditions in the Great Plains region of the United States.

As a great wall of dust moves across their drought-stricken farm, a family's distress is relieved by a young man called Drylongso, who literally blows into their lives with the storm.

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.