Download or read book The Place Beyond the Dust Bowl written by Ron Hughart and published by . This book was released on 2002-05-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bear State Books of Exeter released the publication in early May 2002. It is a gripping account of life after the Grapes of Wrath. It is the story of the plight of Hughart?s migrant family from the Dust Bowl of America, who fled to California and the West to start life anew. The book comes alive in this story of a boy?s struggle through life to manhood. The book spins a tale of drama and wretchedness as a family formerly from Oklahoma struggles for survival in California through the 1950s and 1960s. Your heart will be captured as the story progresses and you will be left with a sense of admiration at the tenacity of a young boy and his fight for survival.Ron Hughart lived in California?s San Benito County in the 1960's and graduated eight-grade in the small one-room schoolhouse in Panoche Valley. As Ron writes he incorporates locate folks in his stories. Bear State Books has printed the book in softbound for ease of handling and reading. It is a must-have for those who are interested in life after the great Dust Bowl migration. At $15.95 in softbound, the book will be a permanent fixture in local libraries for years to come.The book has also been printed in a very limited hardback edition for those who collect first editions for their libraries. Schools should take note, as it is a wonderful tool for teaching the lifestyle of the migrant families from the Midwest. This edition is available from the publisher.
Download or read book The Place Beyond the Dust Bowl written by Ron Hughart and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2002-12-31 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Place Beyond the Dust BowlThe Place Beyond the Dust Bowl is a gripping account of life after the "Grapes of Wrath." It is the story of the plight of Hughart's migrant family from the Dust Bowl of America, who fled to California and the West to start life anew. The book comes alive in this story of a boy's struggle through life to manhood. Also available on Kindle is Hughart's Beyond the Dust Bowl With a Pocket Full of Peanuts.Review: The Dust Bowl epic didn't end when Henry Fonda said goodbye to Jane Darwell on a movie screen. It was, in fact, just beginning. Well into the 1940s, the midwestern-and-southwestern exodus intensified while within California, many migrant families like Ron Hughart's danced with poverty as they continued an internal migration that could last for years, searching for work, searching for security.Hughart's writing offers an inside glimpse at that life, yearning for the lost home while seeking a new one, children living in the midst of those yearnings. Sensing the tension felt by his parents as they sought to provide for their five youngsters, the child Ronnie is nevertheless captured by wonders of the road--the Big Orange that beckons alongside Highway 99, the airplane apparently captured mid-crash on the roof of a restaurant near Fowler, and the enduring magic of cool morning air during sizzling summers. Hughart's perspective, looking back on an Okie boyhood in California's agricultural cornucopia, the Great Central Valley, takes readers into the cultural ferment engendered by the great migration, a way of life that never quite abandoned Oklahoma, and enriched California in the process. A new California was being born as the experiences in these pages unfold.Gerald W. HaslamWriter
Download or read book The Place Beyond the Dust Bowl written by Ron Hughart and published by . This book was released on 2003-07 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After having been stripped from their simple, but stable childhoods growing up on farms in Oklahoma, Mom and Dad became lost ?Okies? in the fruit and vegetable fields of California. As young married adults, but still in their teens, and not having any particular job skills other than working with their hands, they were forced into a migrant lifestyle to provide food for their starving family.Mom and Dad had four children, Ronnie, Peggy, Steve and Sandy before either of them turned twenty-two. After a five-year gap, Billie Sue came along. My folks were proud people and unwilling to accept handouts or any type of public assistance. Their dream was simple: to find forty acres of land to graze a few milk cows, grow a garden and raise their five children. Having farm animals; a horse to ride, a cows for fresh milk, and chickens for eggs, was also important in living a good life. Growing up I learned reality is harsh, and its onset should be accompanied with much explanation and caution. My parents, stifled by the harshness of their own reality as were so many around them, were more concerned about daily survival than the assimilation of their children into a social system, with which they themselves were unfamiliar. Guidance, be it social, psychological, or behavioral, for the kids around the labor camps, was mostly delegated to the schools. Moving from camp to camp offered a myriad of translations of social rights and wrongs, unlocking a door to an uncontrolled environment where a child could become socially disoriented if not completely lost. More often than not, I found myself searching deep inside my mind for some sort of rational reasoning to so many questions. I desperately wanted my world to make sense, so I tried to think through the trials and tribulations of my past and to help answer that which was now puzzling me. This self-imposed survival mode produced enough motivation to move forward into an uncertain future and exist in a world that thought of me as a ?retard.?Even though I was misdiagnosed by my second grade teacher, the following years of residual ramification of having been told I was retarded, along with the hardships of being a family member of poor migrants, left me vulnerable at times and struggling for answers. This took much effort and I fought from one success or failure to the next. Adults that leave positive impressions with children are blessings to us all. Parents are the most giving and forgiving adults in our lives. They are the people that we can depend on, and should not be less loved because of the tremendous changes occurring within us. Some adults are angels that cross our paths at just the right time, and provide positive influences in our lives. Those individuals are the core reason for our self worth. For me, angels other than family members, numbered less than the total digits on one of my hands. They were my mom?s father?s best friend, Irvy, my eighth grade teacher, Mr. Light, and two cowboys named Jim and Darrell. While sitting alone, at my backyard patio table after my fiftieth birthday party, a couple of candles reminded me of my childhood. Too busy being an adult, I had not thought of my earlier years in a long while.Thinking back, my first thoughts began around the time two men came to our house and took our car away. This action sparked anger inside me, and hence the onset of my childhood memories. I was five years old and we lived in a little house on a hillside in Springville, California. Until then, I was impervious to much of life?s difficulties.
Download or read book Farming the Dust Bowl written by Lawrence Svobida and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 1986-04-14 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a powerful original account of one man's efforts to raise wheat on his farm in Meade County, Kansas, during the 1930s. Lawrence Svobida tells of farmers "fighting in the front-line trenches, putting in crop after crop, year after year, only to see each crop in turn destroyed by the elements." Although not a writer by trade, Svobida undertook to record what he saw and experienced "to help the reader to understand what is taking place in the Great Plains region, and how serious it is." He wrote of the need for better farming methods--the only way, he felt, the destruction could be halted or confined. Well before the principles of an ecological movement were widely embraced, Svobida urged a public acceptance of the "sovereign rights of the states and the nation to regulate the use of land by owners . . .so that it may be conserved as a national resource." This graphic account of farm life in the Dust Bowl—perhaps the only autobiographical record of Dust Bowl agriculture in existence—was first published in 1941. This new edition contains an introduction by the historian R. Douglas Hurt that not only objectively sets the scene during and after the Dust bowl, but also places the book properly in the growing body of contemporary literature on agriculture and land use. The volume is an important contribution to American agricultural history in general, and the the history of the Depression and of the Great Plains in particular.
Download or read book Out of the Dust Scholastic Gold written by Karen Hesse and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed author Karen Hesse's Newbery Medal-winning novel-in-verse explores the life of fourteen-year-old Billie Jo growing up in the dust bowls of Oklahoma. Out of the Dust joins the Scholastic Gold line, which features award-winning and beloved novels. Includes exclusive bonus content!"Dust piles up like snow across the prairie. . . ."A terrible accident has transformed Billie Jo's life, scarring her inside and out. Her mother is gone. Her father can't talk about it. And the one thing that might make her feel better -- playing the piano -- is impossible with her wounded hands.To make matters worse, dust storms are devastating the family farm and all the farms nearby. While others flee from the dust bowl, Billie Jo is left to find peace in the bleak landscape of Oklahoma -- and in the surprising landscape of her own heart.
Download or read book The Dust Bowl written by Dayton Duncan and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “riveting” companion to the PBS documentary “clarifies our understanding of the ‘worst manmade ecological disaster in American history’” (Booklist). In this riveting chronicle, Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns capture the profound drama of the American Dust Bowl of the 1930s. Terrifying photographs of mile-high dust storms, along with firsthand accounts by more than two dozen eyewitnesses, bring to life this heart-wrenching catastrophe, when a combination of drought, wind, and poor farming practices turned millions of acres of the Great Plains into a wasteland, killing crops and livestock, threatening the lives of small children, burying homesteaders’ hopes under huge dunes of dirt—and setting in motion a mass migration the likes of which the nation had never seen. Burns and Duncan collected more than three hundred mesmerizing photographs, some never before published, scoured private letters, government reports, and newspaper articles, and conducted in-depth interviews to produce a document that may likely be the last recorded testimony of the generation who lived through this defining decade.
Download or read book American Exodus written by James Noble Gregory and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1991 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gregory reaches into the migrants' lives to reveal both their economic trials and their impact on California's culture and society. He traces the development of an 'Okie subculture' which is now an essential element of California's cultural landscape.
Download or read book Dust Bowl written by Donald Worster and published by New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid 1930s, North America's Great Plains faced one of the worst man-made environmental disasters in world history. Donald Worster's classic chronicle of the devastating years between 1929 and 1939 tells the story of the Dust Bowl in ecological as well as human terms.Now, twenty-five years after his book helped to define the new field of environmental history, Worster shares his more recent thoughts on the subject of the land and how humans interact with it. In a new afterword, he links the Dust Bowl to current political, economic and ecological issues--including the American livestock industry's exploitation of the Great Plains, and the on-going problem of desertification, which has now become a global phenomenon. He reflects on the state of the plains today and the threat of a new dustbowl. He outlines some solutions that have been proposed, such as "the Buffalo Commons," where deer, antelope, bison and elk would once more roam freely, and suggests that we may yet witness a Great Plains where native flora and fauna flourish while applied ecologists show farmers how to raise food on land modeled after the natural prairies that once existed.
Download or read book A Dust Bowl Book of Days 1932 written by Craig Volk and published by South Dakota State Historical Society. This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Using the writings of his grandmother, Margaret Spader Neises, and mother, Joan Neises Volk, author Craig Volk creates a one-year diary that details the life and times of a woman during 1932."--
Download or read book Children of the Dust Bowl The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp written by Jerry Stanley and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2014-11-26 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illus. with photographs from the Dust Bowl era. This true story took place at the emergency farm-labor camp immortalized in Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. Ostracized as "dumb Okies," the children of Dust Bowl migrant laborers went without school--until Superintendent Leo Hart and 50 Okie kids built their own school in a nearby field.
Download or read book The Worst Hard Time written by Timothy Egan and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2006-09-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a tour de force of historical reportage, Timothy Egan’s National Book Award–winning story rescues an iconic chapter of American history from the shadows. The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since. Following a dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, Timothy Egan tells of their desperate attempts to carry on through blinding black dust blizzards, crop failure, and the death of loved ones. Brilliantly capturing the terrifying drama of catastrophe, he does equal justice to the human characters who become his heroes, “the stoic, long-suffering men and women whose lives he opens up with urgency and respect” (New York Times). In an era that promises ever-greater natural disasters, The Worst Hard Time is “arguably the best nonfiction book yet” (Austin Statesman Journal) on the greatest environmental disaster ever to be visited upon our land and a powerful reminder about the dangers of trifling with nature. This e-book includes a sample chapter of THE IMMORTAL IRISHMAN.
Download or read book Dust Bowl Girls written by Lydia Reeder and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Published simultaneously in Canada by Thomas Allen & Son Limited."
Download or read book Dust Bowl written by Janette-Susan Bailey and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes the Dust Bowl story beyond Depression America to describe the ‘dust bowl’ concept as a transnational phenomenon, where during World War Two, US and Australian national mythologies converged. Dust Bowl begins with Depression America, the New Deal and the US Dust Bowl where massive dust storms darkened the skies of the Great Plains and triggered a major national and international media event and generated imagery describing a failed yeoman dream, Dust Bowl refugees, and the coming of a new American Desert. Dust Bowl traces the evolution of this imagery to Australia, World War Two and New Deal-inspired stories of conservation-mindedness, soil erosion and enemies, sheep-farmers and traitors, creeping deserts and human extinction, super-human housewives and natural disaster and finally, grand visions of a nation-building post-war scheme for Australia’s iconic Snowy River‒that vision became the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Scheme.
Download or read book Dust Girl written by Sarah Zettel and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2012 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the day in 1935 when her mother vanishes during the worst dust storm ever recorded in Kansas, Callie learns that she is not actually a human being.
Download or read book Legacies of Dust Land Use and Labor on the Colorado Plains written by Douglas Sheflin and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2019-06-01 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2019 Choice Outstanding Academic Title The Dust Bowl of the 1930s was the worst ecological disaster in American history. When the rains stopped and the land dried up, farmers and agricultural laborers on the southeastern Colorado plains were forced to adapt to new realities. The severity of the drought coupled with the economic devastation of the Great Depression compelled farmers and government officials to combine their efforts to achieve one primary goal: keep farmers farming on the Colorado plains. In Legacies of Dust Douglas Sheflin offers an innovative and provocative look at how a natural disaster can dramatically influence every facet of human life. Focusing on the period from 1929 to 1962, Sheflin presents the disaster in a new light by evaluating its impact on both agricultural production and the people who fueled it, demonstrating how the Dust Bowl fractured Colorado’s established system of agricultural labor. Federal support, combined with local initiative, instituted a broad conservation regime that facilitated production and helped thousands of farmers sustain themselves during the difficult 1930s and again during the drought of the 1950s. Drawing from western, environmental, transnational, and labor history, Sheflin investigates how the catastrophe of the Dust Bowl and its complex consequences transformed the southeastern Colorado agricultural economy.
Download or read book Letters from the Dust Bowl written by Caroline Henderson and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-10-19 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In May 1936 Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace wrote to Caroline Henderson to praise her contributions to American "understanding of some of our farm problems." His comments reflected the national attention aroused by Henderson’s articles, which had been published in Atlantic Monthly since 1931. Even today, Henderson’s articles are frequently cited for her vivid descriptions of the dust storms that ravaged the Plains. Caroline Henderson was a Mount Holyoke graduate who moved to Oklahoma’s panhandle to homestead and teach in 1907. This collection of Henderson’s letters and articles published from 1908 to1966 presents an intimate portrait of a woman’s life in the Great Plains. Her writing mirrors her love of the land and the literature that sustained her as she struggled for survival. Alvin O. Turner has collected and edited Henderson’s published materials together with her private correspondence. Accompanying biographical sketch, chapter introductions, and annotations provide details on Henderson’s life and context for her frequent literary allusions and comments on contemporary issues.
Download or read book The Dust Bowl Orphans written by Suzette D. Harrison and published by Forever. This book was released on 2023-12-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dust cloud rolls in from nowhere, stinging our eyes and muddling our senses. I reach for my baby sister and pull her small body close to me. When the sky clears, we are alone on an empty road with no clue which way to go... Oklahoma, 1935: Fifteen-year-old Faith Wilson takes her little sister Hope's hand. In worn-down shoes, they walk through the choking heat of the Dust Bowl towards a new life in California. But when a storm blows in, the girls are separated from their parents. How will they survive in a place where just the color of their skin puts them in terrible danger? Starving and forced to sleep on the streets, Faith thinks a room in a small boarding house will keep her sister safe. But the glare in the landlady's eye as Faith leaves in search of their parents has her wondering if she's made a dangerous mistake. Who is this woman, and what does she want with sweet little Hope? Trapped, will the sisters ever find their way back to their family? California, present day: Reeling from her divorce and grieving the child she lost, Zoe Edwards feels completely alone in the world. Throwing herself into work cataloguing old photos for an exhibition, she sees an image of a teenage girl who looks exactly like her, and a shiver grips her. Could this girl be a long-lost relation, someone to finally explain the holes in Zoe's family history? Diving into the secrets in her past, Zoe unravels this young girl's heartbreaking story of bravery and sacrifice. But will anything prepare her for the truth about who she is...?
