Americans View Their Dust Bowl Experience

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ISBN: 9780870816482 | 0870816489
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Copyright: 8/1/2001

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Ideal for courses in American history, this book gathers first-person accounts of the trauma of the Thirties in the Heartland and assesses these accounts from the distance of several decades.

Preface	p. ix
Reprint Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Contemporary Accounts: The Plight of Farmers in the Great Depression, 1931-1936	p. 15
Early Dust Bowl Distress and Anger, 1931-1932	p. 21
Share Croppers Are Drought Victims, New York Times, January 27, 1931	p. 21
Get Away From Those Cows, Colliers, February 27, 1932	p. 23
The Farmers Go on Strike, 1932-1933	p. 37
Why the Farmers' Holiday, Milo Reno memoirs, July 20, 1932	p. 37
The Farmers Go on Strike, New Republic, August 31, 1932	p. 43
Nebraska Farmers in Action, New Republic, January 18, 1933	p. 48
Farmers March on Washington, 1932	p. 55
Capital Police to Permit Farmers' March, New York Times, November 1, 1932	p. 55
Corn Belt Farmers to Move on Capital, New York Times, November 27, 1932	p. 57
Police Plan to Bar March on Capital, New York Times, November 29, 1932	p. 60
Hunger on the March, The Nation, December 28, 1932	p. 65
New Violence in the Midwest, 1933	p. 73
Teachers Stage New Chicago Riot, New York Times, April 27, 1933	p. 73
Iowa Farmers Abduct Judge From Court, New York Times, April 28, 1933	p. 76
Iowa Troops Rule Farm Riot Areas, New York Times, April 29, 1933	p. 77
Drought, Heat Waves, and Dust Storms From the Great Plains, 1934-1936	p. 81
Huge Dust Cloud, Blown 1,500 Miles, Dims City, New York Times, May 12, 1934	p. 82
Drought, Dust, Disaster, Time, May 21, 1934	p. 88
Dust Changes America, The Nation, May 22, 1935	p. 90
Letters From the Dust Bowl, Atlantic Monthly, May 1936	p. 93
Rainmaking and Rainmakers	p. 113
Rain Machines Fail, Kansas Tries Prayer, New York Times, July 1, 1934	p. 113
The President's Devils Lake [North Dakota] Speech, New York Times, August 8, 1934	p. 115
Roosevelt, "Rain Maker," New York Times, August 9, 1934	p. 116
South Dakota City Prays, New York Times, July 11, 1936	p. 118
Historians View the Dust Bowl Years	p. 121
Men, Women, and Children--the Personal Response	p. 123
Plains Women: Rural Life in the 1930s, by Dorothy Schwieder and Deborah Fink, Great Plains Quarterly (1988)	p. 125
Farmer Rebels in Plymouth County, Iowa, 1932-1933, by Rodney D. Karr, Annals of Iowa (1985)	p. 141
"A God-forsaken Place": Folk Eschatology and the Dust Bowl, by Brad Lookingbill, Great Plains Quarterly (1994)	p. 151
Vehicles for Expressing the Farmers' Rage--Institutional Activism	p. 175
The Farm Holiday Movement in Nebraska, by John L. Shover, Nebraska History (1962)	p. 176
The North Dakota Farm Strike of 1932, by Larry Remele, North Dakota History (1974)	p. 200
Resolutions, Programs, and Policies of the North Dakota Farmers' Holiday Association, 1932-1937, by James W. Dodd, North Dakota History (1961)	p. 228
Restrained, Respectable Radicals: The South Dakota Farm Holiday, by John E. Miller, Agricultural History (1985)	p. 244
Agrarian Radicals: The United Farmers League of South Dakota, by Allan Mathews, South Dakota History (1973)	p. 267
Searching for Explanations--the Media Response	p. 277
Radical Rule in Montana, by Charles Vindex, Montana, Magazine of Western History (1968)	p. 281
The Plow That Broke the Plains: Film Legacy of the Great Depression, by Vernon Carstensen	p. 303
Historical Overviews	p. 321
Rethinking the Farm Revolt of the 1930s, by William C. Pratt, Great Plains Quarterly (1988)	p. 325
The Dirty Thirties: A Study in Agricultural Capitalism, by Donald Worster, Great Plains Quarterly (1986)	p. 349
Dust Bowl Historiography, by Harry C. McDean, Great Plains Quarterly (1986)	p. 366
Modern Bibliography of the Dust Bowl	p. 385
Editors	p. 409
Index	p. 411
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