Americans View Their Dust Bowl Experience

John R Wunder editor Frances W Kaye editor Vernon Carstensen editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:University Press of Colorado

Published:15th Sep '01

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Ideal for courses in American history, this book gathers first-person accounts of the trauma of the Thirties in the Heartland and assesses these accounts from the distance of several decades

"This book... offers readers an intimate understanding of natural, economic, and political facets of one of the greatest environmental disasters to befall the United States." - Great Plains Research
"The journalism included in this volume is of a very high quality, politically charged and historically rich. A useful resource for students of American history."
- Kirkus Reviews"Americans View Their Dust Bowl Experience offers a compelling selection of eyewitness accounts, newspaper reports, and contemporary magazine articles. These documents put words to the faces and make the past live again." - James P. Ronda, author of Lewis and Clark Among the Indians

ISBN: 9780870816482

Dimensions: 226mm x 152mm x 28mm

Weight: 603g

445 pages