The worst hard time review6/24/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() In truth, the dust bowl was largely a human creation. The author personalizes this tragedy by focusing on a handful of hardy settlers who came to America’s heartland with high hopes and boundless energy, then watched with growing despair as the earth turned against them. ![]() Thousands died from “dust pneumonia,” a new condition born of swallowing and inhaling the swirling topsoil. From 1930 to 1935, nearly a million people left their farms, littered with animal corpses and stunted crops. The “dust bowl” of the 1930s covered 100 million acres spread over five states: Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Nebraska and Colorado. Grim, riveting account by New York Times reporter Egan makes clear that, although hurricanes and floods have grabbed recent headlines, America’s worst assault from Mother Nature came in the form of ten long years of drought and dust. ![]()
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