Nearly a million people left the Great Plains-the largest displacement America had ever seen.įDR clung to the belief that there was a way for man to fix what man had broken. Most lost.įrom 1930 to 1935 there were 750,000 bankruptcies or foreclosures on farms. He brings to life those who wrestled the dry landscape-hard scrabble farmers, railroad barons, real estate speculators, and politicians. Through painstaking research, including interviews with some of those who survived the Dust Bowl years, Egan paints a vivid portrait of America’s greatest environmental disaster.Įgan traces the roots of the Dust Bowl from wresting the High Plains from Native Americans to the “plow up” that tore the land apart.
This must-read book is both a breathtaking historical narrative and a cautionary tale. New York Times columnist, Pulitzer Prize winner Tim Egan earned the National Book Award for The Worst Hard Times. People lost their way as the wall of darkness rolled in stores and schools were boarded up cattle lay dead in the dust. On Black Sunday, Apa cloud two hundred miles wide carrying more than 300,000 tons of topsoil blackened the skies over the Great Plains.
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