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A look at the dust bowl by focusing on stories of different families in different locations impacted by the disaster. Sometimes it was hard to keep them straight, but the story was unrelenting and pushed me through.
I really was not taught much about the dust bowl as a student beyond it being a tragedy that coincided with the Great Depression. I had done more learning lately, but this book makes clear how policy choices from removing American Indians, destroying buffalo populations, and trying to farm unwilling land using unadapted techniques impacted the entire US.
I really was not taught much about the dust bowl as a student beyond it being a tragedy that coincided with the Great Depression. I had done more learning lately, but this book makes clear how policy choices from removing American Indians, destroying buffalo populations, and trying to farm unwilling land using unadapted techniques impacted the entire US.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Chronic illness, Abandonment
Moderate: Xenophobia
Minor: Fatphobia