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.
Provides, through the story of one family, a brief description of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake that destroyed five hundred city blocks, killed over three thousand people, and left about 225,0000 people homeless, and its aftermath.
Provides, through the story of a firefighter and his family, a brief description of the 1871 Chicago fire that killed over three hundred people and left over one hundred thousand people homeless, and its aftermath.
Provides, through the story of one family, a brief description of the hurricane that devastated Galveston, Texas, in 1900, with a loss of over eight thousand lives, and its aftermath.
