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21) The dust bowl
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (240 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ken Burns documents the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history, when a frenzied wheat boom on the southern Plains, followed by a decade-long drought during the 1930s, nearly swept away the breadbasket of the nation. Vivid interviews, dramatic photographs, and seldom-seen movie footage bring to life incredible stories of human suffering and perseverance. Includes bonus features.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Annie Bell can't escape the dust. It's in her hair, covering the windowsills, coating the animals in the barn, in the corners of her children's dry, cracked lips. It's 1934 and the Bell farm in Mulehead, Oklahoma is struggling as the earliest storms of The Dust Bowl descend. All around them the wheat harvests are drying out and people are packing up their belongings as storms lay waste to the Great Plains. As the Bells wait for the rains to come,...
Author
Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
96 pages : illustrations, map ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Photographs capture the horrific conditions of this national disaster, the struggles of the people who stayed to save their land, and the sorrows of those who were forced to move as a result of this catastrophe.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
©2012.
Physical Desc
231 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Draws on reports, newspaper articles, and interviews to chronicle the American Dust Bowl, providing photographs to illustrate the catastrophe as well as offer a tribute to man's relationship to the land and his ability to persevere.
26) Mary Coin
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1936, a young mother resting by the side of a road in Central California is spontaneously photographed by a woman documenting the migrant laborers who have taken to America's farms in search of work. Little personal information is exchanged, and neither woman has any way of knowing that they have produced what will become the most iconic image of the Great Depression. Three vibrant characters anchor the narrative of Mary Coin. Mary, the migrant...
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 55 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The draught of 1931 brought financial and emotional ruin to thousands of families in the Southern Plains. Dust Bowl was America's worst ecological disaster.
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
103 pages : black and white illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1935, dust storms are sweeping across the southern plains of the United States, including Oklahoma. Twelve-year-old Millie is worried about her family's survival. The Dust Bowl is getting worse, and they're running out of food and money. Despite the hardships, Pa doesn't want to abandon the farm, which has been in the family for generations. But when the worst "black blizzard" yet hits, they have no choice. The family decides to make the journey...
Author
Publisher
Pelican Pub. Co
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some color) ; 25 x 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Voices from those who lived through the largest environmental catastrophe in American history. From 1931 to 1940, a combination of drought and soil erosion destroyed the fragile ecology and economy of the Great Plains. Evocative illustrations accompany poignant testimonies, including those of a farmer's wife, a banker, and a child who had never seen rain, to provide an emotionally charged account.
Author
Publisher
Abrams ComicArts
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Using the sepia tones of the Dust Bowl as his palette, author and artist Nick Hayes tells a fictionalized story of world-famous folkie Woody Guthrie (1912-1967), starting in the 1920s when Guthrie was a teenager supporting himself in dried-up, post-boomtown Oklahoma. Picking up a harmonica and eventually a battered guitar, Guthrie finds solace in the ancient lineage of folksong. Hayes charts the musician's course from Oklahoma and Texas towns ravaged...
Author
Publisher
Suma/Penguin Random house Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Primera edición.
Physical Desc
534 pages ; 23 cm
Language
Español
Description
Texas, 1921. La Gran Guerra ha terminado y Estados Unidos parece entrar en una nueva era de optimismo y abundancia. Pero para Elsa, considerada demasiado mayor para casarse en una época en la que el matrimonio es la única opción de una mujer, el futuro es incierto. Hasta la noche en que conoce a Rafe Martinelli y decide cambiar la dirección de su vida. Con su reputación arruinada, solo le queda una opción respetable: casarse con un hombre al...
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (613 min.) : sound, black and white, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Drums along the Mohawk: Newlyweds Gil and Lana Martin try to establish a farm in the Mohawk Valley but are menaced by Indians and Tories as the Revolutionary War begins.
The grapes of wrath: Tom Joad returns from prison to find his homestead overwhelmed by weather -- and a greedy banking industry. Seeing virtually no work potential on the horizon of the Oklahoma dust bowls, the entire family packs up and heads for the promised land -- California.
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