A fictionalized biography of famous folk musician Woodie Guthrie starting in the 1920s when Guthrie was a teenager in Oklahoma, from the Texas towns ravaged by dust and the Great Depression.
Presents the events of the Dust Bowl which occured during the 1930s from three different perspectives, an Oklahoma farmer, a migrant worker in California, and a government journalist.
Examines the struggles of the people of the southern Plains who stayed in the region rather than seeking refuge elsewhere during the decade of the Dust Bowl.
Eleven-year-old Jack Clark struggles with everyday obstacles while his family and community contend with the challenges brought on by the Dust Bowl in 1937 Kansas.
An examination of the Dust Bowl era from 1931 through 1939 that discusses economic, social, political, and medical aspects of the situation, and includes archival photographs.
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.
