farmers

Using private letters, newspaper accounts, and interviews from survivors, the author presents a history of the dust storms that occurred throughout the Midwest during the Great Depression.

Examines the conditions that led to the severe drought and terrible dust storms that destroyed crops and farmland during the 1930s and shows how some families managed to survive with help from the federal and state governments.

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

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

Grandpappy sets things right around the farm with just a snap of his suspenders, but trouble looms when Grandmammy is carried off by some crows and Grandpappy finds his suspenders have lost their snap.

Three farmers, each one meaner than the next, try all-out warfare to get rid of the fox and his family. Includes full-color photographs from the 2009 motion picture.

Simple text and illustrations describe a farm and the different jobs performed by a farmer and his family.

Tike and Ella May Hamlin struggle to strive in their wooden farm shack on the arid land of the Texas Panhandle during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, Tike learns to make a sturdy simple adobe house from a five-cent government pamphlet, but not owning the land they farm and due to larger forces beyond their control-including ranching conglomerates and banks-their adobe house remains painfully out of reach.

The Pacific and Southern Railroad engages in corrupt legislation to rob the farmers of their savings from the wheat crops. A grim harvest of death and disillusionment, and financial and moral ruin is yielded.