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Dust Bowl days : hard times for farmers
Hoping for rain
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Discusses the drought in the central United States in the 1930's that caused the "Dust Bowl". Text uses historical photographs and fictional stories to illustrate the causes and results of the dust...
Discusses the drought in the central United States in the 1930's that caused the "Dust Bowl". Text uses historical photographs and fictional stories to illustrate the causes and results of the dust bowl, and how it changed American society and history.
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- Creator
- Kate Connell
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Washington, DC : National Geographic Society, [2004]
- ©2004
- Physical Details
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- 40 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 0792245571, 9780792245575
- OCLC
- ocm56614706
- Originally published: Hoping for rain. Washington, DC : National Geographic, 2004.
- The dirty thirties -- Black Sunday -- Dust, dust everywhere -- Until it rains -- Going down the road -- Hope on the horizon -- Epilogue -- Glossary
Subjects
- Depressions -- 1929 -- Great Plains -- Juvenile literature.
- Dust storms -- Great Plains -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
- Droughts -- Great Plains -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
- Farm life -- Great Plains -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
- Farmers -- Great Plains -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
- Great Plains -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
- Great Plains -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.