Egan, Timothy

Summary: "The dust storms that terrorized America's High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since, and the stories of the people who held on have never been fully told. Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist and author Timothy Egan follows a half-dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, going from sod homes...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2006

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978 EGA

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 978 EGA

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: 978.03 EGA

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist US Egan

Egan, Timothy.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2006

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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 978.03 EGA

Reis, Ronald A.

Summary: Housewives hung wet sheets and blankets over windows, struggling to seal every crack with gummed paper strips. A man avoided shaking hands, lest the static electricity gathered from a dust storm knock his greeter flat. Children's tears turned to mud. Horses chewed feed filled with dust particles that sandpapered their gums raw. Dead cattle, when pried open, were filled with pounds of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 978.032 REI