Conserving the Dust Bowl
Author | : Sarah Thomas Karle |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017-03-13 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780807166413 |
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Author | : Sarah Thomas Karle |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017-03-13 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780807166413 |
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Author | : R. Douglas Hurt |
Publisher | : Taylor Trade Publications |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780882295411 |
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Author | : Caroline Henderson |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2012-10-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0806187948 |
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.
Author | : Donald Worster |
Publisher | : New York : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780195032123 |
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.
Author | : Tricia Andryszewski |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781562942724 |
Examines the human and natural causes of the severe dust storms that turned much of the Great Plains into a "dust bowl" in the 1930s, and describes the devastation caused by these storms.
Author | : Mathew Paul Bonnifield |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Hugh Hammond Bennett |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Soil erosion |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jonathan Coppess |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2018-12-01 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1496212525 |
At the intersection of the growing national conversation about our food system and the long-running debate about our government's role in society is the complex farm bill. American farm policy, built on a political coalition of related interests with competing and conflicting demands, has proven incredibly resilient despite development and growth. In The Fault Lines of Farm Policy Jonathan Coppess analyzes the legislative and political history of the farm bill, including the evolution of congressional politics for farm policy. Disputes among the South, the Great Plains, and the Midwest form the primordial fault line that has defined the debate throughout farm policy's history. Because these regions formed the original farm coalition and have played the predominant roles throughout, this study concentrates on the three major commodities produced in these regions: cotton, wheat, and corn. Coppess examines policy development by the political and congressional interests representing these commodities, including basic drivers such as coalition building, external and internal pressures on the coalition and its fault lines, and the impact of commodity prices. This exploration of the political fault lines provides perspectives for future policy discussions and more effective policy outcomes.
Author | : Ann Heinrichs |
Publisher | : Capstone |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780756510831 |
Describes how dry, dusty winds and a terrible drought affected farmers and ranchers in the Great Plains for nearly 10 years in the 1930's, labeling the region as the Dust Bowl.
Author | : Douglas Sheflin |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2019-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1496215397 |
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.