Volume 13 , Issue 26

Dust Bowl: Southern Plains In the 1930's

We found another book online at Google books entitled, Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains In the 1930's, by Donald Worster. It gives a history of the lives finding life sometimes easy and sometimes nasty under harsh, severe weather . . . just when things are getting to feel comfortable.

You have to be able to adapt to the extreme climate from day to day and season to season. The plains have become our cultural boneyard where the evidences of bad judgment and misplaced schemes lie strewn about like bleached skulls. Some have chosen not to live in the region because of too much wind, dirt, flatness, space, barbed wire, drought, uncertainty and hard work. BUT . . . there are some who have adapted and stuck out the fierce hardtimes of the Depression and Dust Bowl era.

The southern plains were/are a vast, sprawling area covering over more than 100 million acres, which include parts of five states: Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas.

We all know that the plains have had their place in the American dream when the West was new and the grasslands offered unexplored possibilities. The plains, in fact were at the front edge of our collective imagination.   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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