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<p><P>The dust storms that terrorized America's High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since, and the stories of the people that held on have never been fully told. Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist and author Timothy Egan follows a half-dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, going from sod huts to new framed houses to huddling in basements with the windows sealed by damp sheets in a futile effort to keep the dust out.</p> <h3>The New Yorker</h3> <p>On April 14, 1935, the biggest dust storm on record descended over five states, from the Dakotas to Amarillo, Texas. People standing a few feet apart could not see each other; if they touched, they risked being knocked over by the static electricity that the dust created in the air. The Dust Bowl was the product of reckless, market-driven farming that had so abused the land that, when dry weather came, the wind lifted up millions of acres of topsoil and whipped it around in &ldquo;black blizzards,&rdquo; which blew as far east as New York. This ecological disaster rapidly disfigured whole communities. Egan&rsquo;s portraits of the fam

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Author

Egan, Timothy.

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin Co., c2006.

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780547347776

Category

history

Subjects

Fiction, History, Humanities

Rating

4.04 / 5 (201 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14