Farming The Dust Bowl
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Author | : Lawrence Svobida |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
This is the story of Lawrence Svobida, a Kansas wheat farmer who fought searing drought, wind, erosion, and economic hard times in the Dust Bowl. It is a vivid account by a farmer who pitted his physical strength, mental faculties, and financial resources against the environment as nature wreaked havoc across the southern Great Plains. Svobida's description of Dust Bowl agriculture is important not only because it accurately describes farming in that region but also because it is one of the few first-hand accounts that remain of the frightening and still haunting dust-laden decade of the 1930's.
Author | : Caroline Henderson |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780806135403 |
A collection of letters and articles written by Caroline Henderson between 1908 and 1966 which provide insight into her life in the Great Plains, featuring both published materials and private correspondence. Includes a biographical profile, chapter introductions, and annotations.
Author | : Ann Heinrichs |
Publisher | : Capstone |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780756510831 |
Describes how dry, dusty winds and a terrible drought affected farmers and ranchers in the Great Plains for nearly 10 years in the 1930's, labeling the region as the Dust Bowl.
Author | : R. Douglas Hurt |
Publisher | : Taylor Trade Publications |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780882295411 |
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Author | : Debra McArthur |
Publisher | : Enslow Publishing |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780766018389 |
Examines the conditions that led to the severe drought and terrible dust storm that destroyed crops and farmland during the 1930s.
Author | : Dale Strickler |
Publisher | : Storey Publishing, LLC |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2018-06-26 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 1635860032 |
Rainfall levels are rarely optimal, but there are hundreds of things you can do to efficiently conserve and use the water you do have and to reduce the impact of drought on your soil, crops, livestock, and farm or ranch ecosystem. Author Dale Strickler introduces you to the same innovative systems he used to transform his own drought-stricken family farm in Kansas into a thriving, water-wise, and profitable enterprise, maximizing healthy cropland, pasture, and water supply. Ranging from simple, short-term projects such as installing rain-collection ollas to long-term land-management planning strategies, Strickler’s methods show how to get more water into the soil, keep it in the soil, and help plants and livestock access it. This publication conforms to the EPUB Accessibility specification at WCAG 2.0 Level AA.
Author | : Donald Worster |
Publisher | : New York : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780195032123 |
In the mid 1930s, North America's Great Plains faced one of the worst man-made environmental disasters in world history. Donald Worster's classic chronicle of the devastating years between 1929 and 1939 tells the story of the Dust Bowl in ecological as well as human terms.Now, twenty-five years after his book helped to define the new field of environmental history, Worster shares his more recent thoughts on the subject of the land and how humans interact with it. In a new afterword, he links the Dust Bowl to current political, economic and ecological issues--including the American livestock industry's exploitation of the Great Plains, and the on-going problem of desertification, which has now become a global phenomenon. He reflects on the state of the plains today and the threat of a new dustbowl. He outlines some solutions that have been proposed, such as "the Buffalo Commons," where deer, antelope, bison and elk would once more roam freely, and suggests that we may yet witness a Great Plains where native flora and fauna flourish while applied ecologists show farmers how to raise food on land modeled after the natural prairies that once existed.
Author | : Don Brown |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 85 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0547815506 |
The causes and results of the Dust Bowl and how the lessons learned are still used today. Presented in comic book format.
Author | : David C. King |
Publisher | : History Compass |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 2013-07-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781579600181 |
The ""Dust Bowl"" describes both a time in American history (mid-1930s) and a region (the Great Plains). Severe weather, misuse of land by farmers, and economic pressures from the Great Depression meant that farmers and families in a large area of the central U.S. were faced with loss of usable land, lack of work, and poverty. This is their story, told in their words and in photographs. Included are newspaper accounts, letters, interviews, memoirs, songs, government documents, FDR's Second New Deal, and an excerpt from Steinbeck's ""Grapes of Wrath.""
Author | : David Booth |
Publisher | : Kids Can Press Ltd |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781550742954 |
A young boy listens to his grandfather's story of farm life during the Dust Bowl years.