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...

Draws on reports, newspaper articles, and interviews to chronicle the American Dust Bowl, providing photographs to illustrate the catastrophe as well as offer a tribute to man's relationship to the land and his ability to persevere.

"Uses primary sources to tell the story of the Dust Bowl"--

The causes and results of the Dust Bowl and how the lessons learned are still used today.

An introduction to the causes, events, and consequences of the extreme drought and dust storms that affected the Great Plains during the 1930s.

Discusses the disastrous drought in the United States during the 1930s which made a "dust bowl" out of part of the Great Plains, which caused great hardship for farmers, and the enactment of programs and reforms to help the people and land.

A young girl sells her horse and raises enough money to buy back her father's tractor, which is up for auction, in this story of a Depression era farm.