The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (Paperback)

from ralphz

It's a time you never want to repeat, an apocalyptic time that's unimaginable now. The Dust Bowl changed the Heartland seemingly in an instant and drove people away, creating despair in the middle of the Great Depression. The heartbreaking story is told with compassion and humanity, and the stori...

from Crazymamie

The May read for the Steinbeckathon was John Steinbeck's amazing book The Grapes of Wrath. Because I had just read it less than a year ago, I chose to read this recommended nonfiction work that explores that same time period. I stole the idea from Ilana, so thanks Ilana! The Worst Hard Time explo...

from Ireadthereforeiam

What a book! It reads like the best fiction. Stories of the people who settled the grasslands in the late 1800's are gripping. The government promised land for everyone. Their high hopes of breaking farmland that could sustain their families were palpable. It was all going to be so good. That is,...

from msf59

Hardship? Hunger? To most of my generation, these words are meaningless. I was born at the tail-end of the baby boom era, a time when our country prospered and continued to thrive, right on through my late teens. I grew up in a working class family but I always had food and clothing. This incredi...

from phebj

This was a fantastic book--a non-fiction page-turner and a true-life horror story of the people who stayed put during the Dust Bowl years of the 1930s (the "Dirty Thirties") in the High Plains of Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas and Colorado. Egan does a great job explaining the background to th...