In a tour de force of historical reportage, Timothy Egan's National Book Award–winning story rescues an iconic chapter of American history from the shadows.

The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since. Following a dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, Timothy Egan tells of their desperate attempts

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"Dust Bowl memoir of a family who held on tenant-farming in Oklahoma years after their relatives westered to California. Focuses on Henshaw's father, who would not leave until he could pay his way to California, and on her parents' strong marriage and how it sustained the family of eleven"--Provided by publisher.

Ken Burns documents the worst human-made ecological disaster in American history, when a frenzied wheat boom on the southern Plains, followed by a decade-long drought during the 1930s, nearly swept away the breadbasket of the nation. Vivid interviews, dramatic photographs, and seldom-seen movie footage bring to life incredible stories of human suffering and perseverance. Includes bonus features.

Tale of a boy in Dust Bowl America, who must deal with the effects of the Dust Bowl, rising tensions, and a shadowy illness. His world of desperation turns into unexpected courage.

Great Grandma Annie reminisces about life on her family's Oklahoma farm during the terrible drought of the 1930s when the region was known as the "Dust Bowl."

"Annie Bell can't escape the dust. It's in her hair, on the windowsills, coating the animals, on her children's cracked lips. The Bell farm in Mulehead, Oklahoma, is struggling as the storms of the Dust Bowl descend. Annie's fragile young son suffers from dust pneumonia, her headstrong daughter is choosing a dangerous path out of Mulehead, and her husband is plagued by disturbing dreams of rain. As Annie, desperate for an escape of her own, flirts...

A twelve-year-old girl keeps a journal of her family's and friends' difficult experiences in the Texas panhandle, part of the "Dust Bowl," during the Great Depression. Includes a historical note about life in America in 1935.

Describes the plight of the migrant workers who traveled from the Dust Bowl to California during the Depression and were forced to live in a federal labor camp and discusses the school that was built for their children.

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. 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...