The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl Poetry including Indigenous elders and scientific

including Indigenous elders and scientific mentors who sharpened his eye for the natural world

Peter Swanson

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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl Poetry including Indigenous elders and scientificThis National Book Awardwinning story, a tour de force of historical reportage, rescues an iconic chapter of American historythe Dust Bowl that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depressionfrom the shadows. Following a dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, Egan tells of their desperate attempts to carry on through blinding black dust blizzards, crop failure, and the death of loved ones.