A review by wakejyles
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan

3.0

A thorough and interesting account of not only the dust bowl and how it happened, but the total horror that the people living there at the time had to endure. A little dry at times (ha), but the pacing was quick enough that it never felt like a slog. A great example of how the American mindset of “bigger is better” can all too quickly blow up in our faces. Example: The US government seeing the Great Plains, the native Americans and millions of bison that inhabited it and thinking they could do it better. Result: The freakin Dust Bowl.