This book provides a unique, thorough, and indispensable resource for anyone investigating the causes and consequences of the Dust Bowl.
During the 1930s, drought and the cultivation of submarginal lands created a severe wind-erosion problem in the southern Great Plains, a region that became known as the Dust Bowl. During the worst dust storms, the blowing soil often turned day into night. Some people died when caught outside during a black blizzard, others developed "dust pneumonia," and some residents moved to California. Most people, however, remained. Those who stayed and endured the storms had an abiding faith that federal resources and the return of normal rainfall would end the dust storms and return life to normal, free from the desperation and fear caused by the blowing soil.
Documents of the Dust Bowl offers a fascinating documentary history of one of the worst ecological disasters in American history. It will enable high school students and academics alike to study the manner in which Dust Bowl residents confronted and endured the dust storms in the southern Great Plains during the 1930s.
Provides readers easy access to important public documents located in the National Archives that discuss the causes and consequences of the Dust BowlDiscusses major soil conservation programs and techniques to protect and restore the grass and wheat landsIndicates the importance of government planning and financial support in American agricultureExplains why farmers in the southern Great Plains farm with terraces, contour plowing, strip cropping, and rough tillage practices for planting wheat, grain sorghum, and grass Traces the origin and development of the National GrasslandsIncludes the reasons for planting the shelterbelts, which can still be seen in the region today
- ISBN10 144085498X
- ISBN13 9781440854989
- Publish Date 1 April 2019
- Publish Status Active
- Imprint ABC-CLIO
- Format eBook
- Pages 240
- Language English