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It joins ecological disaster to policy choices and personal endurance.
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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
Timothy Egan2006 selection · Nonfiction
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
An oral and environmental history of families who remained on the Great Plains during the Dust Bowl.
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You enjoy narrative history built from survivor testimony.
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