KU Common Book 2013: Promise: The Great Plowup, 1901-1930

This guide contains resources related to the 2013 KU Common Book, The Worst Hard Time, as well as other materials connected to The Dust Bowl.

About this Section

The center column is divided by chapter and includes references from Egan's "Notes and Sources."  The right column includes periodicals used in the first section, Promise: The Great Plowup 1901-1930, as well as links to electronic collections.

1. The Wanderer

Duke, C. S., & Frantz, J.B. (1961).  Six thousand miles of fence:  Life on the XIT Ranch of Texas.  Austin:  Univ. of Texas Press.

   Request this title via Interlibrary Loan.

Dawson, J. C. (1985).  High plains yesterdays:  From XIT days through drouth and depressionAustin, TX:  Eakin Press. 

Hunter, L. M. (1969).  The book of years:  A history of Dallam and Hartley Counties.  Hereford, TX:  Pioneer Book Publisher.

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Foster, M. W. (1991).  Being Comanche:  A social history of an American Indian community.  Tucson:  Univ. of Arizona Press.

Fehrenbach, T. R. (1974).  Comanches:  The destruction of a peopleNew York:  Alfred A. Knopf. 

Lamar, H. R. (Ed.).  (1998).  The new encyclopedia of the American West.  New Hampshire, Conn.:  Yale Univ. Press.

Rathjen, F. W. (1973).  The Texas panhandle frontierAustin:  Univ. of Texas Press. 

Gould, F. W. (1975).  The grasses of TexasCollege Station:  Texas A&M Univ. Press.

2. No Man's Land

Gregg, J. (1962).  Commerce of the prairiesPhiladelphia:  Lippincott.

Butterbaugh Young, N. G. (1991).  The tracks we followed.  Amarillo, TX:  Southwestern Publications.

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White, R. (1991).  It's your misfortune and none of my own:  A new history of the American WestNorman:  Univ. of Oklahoma Press.

Powell, John Wesly. (1878).  Report on the Arid Lands.  Washington, D.C.: G.P.O.

3. Creating Dalhart

Hunter, L. M. (1969).  The book of years:  A history of Dallam and Hartley Counties.  Hereford, TX:  Pioneer Book Publisher.

   Request this title via Interlibrary Loan.

Dawson, J. C. (1985).  High plains yesterdays:  From XIT days through drouth and depressionAustin, TX:  Eakin Press.

Kansas:  A guide to the sunflower state.  (1939).  Federal Writers Project of the WPA.  New York:  Viking. 

American Life Histories, Manuscripts from the Federal Writer's Project, 1936-1940. Library of Congress.

4. High Plains Deutsch

Toepfer, A. B. & Dreiling, A. (1966).  Conquering the wind:  An epic migration from the Rhine to the Volga to the plains of KansasV. C. Leiker (Ed.).  Garwood, N.J., V. C. Leiker.  

Williams, H. P. (1975).  The Czar's GermansLincoln, NB:  American Historical Society of Germans from Russia.

Saul, N. E. (1974).  The migration of Russian-Germans to KansasKansas Historical Quarterly, 40 (1).

5. Last of the Great Plowup

Hoy, J. & Isern, T. (1987).  Plains folkNorman:  Univ. of Oklahoma Press.

Kansas:  A guide to the sunflower state.  (1939).  Federal Writers Project of the WPA.  New York:  Viking.

Watkins, T. H. (1993).  The Great Depression:  America in the 1930sBoston:  Little, Brown and Co.

Dawson, J. C. (1985).  High plains yesterdays:  From XIT days through drouth and depressionAustin, TX:  Eakin Press.

Beard, C.A. (1939).  America in midpassageNew York:  MacMillan.

Periodicals

The Dalhart Texan

   Request older issues via Interlibrary Loan.

Cimarron News 

   Request older issues via Interlibrary Loan.

Agricullture Yearbook (online 1894-1921)

Yearbook (United States, Department of Agriculture) (online 1920-1922)

Agriculture Yearbook (online 1923-1926)

 Yearbook of Agriculture (online 1927-1978)

Monthly Weather Review (online 1987-    )

Statistical Abstract of the United States (online access 1879-1949) via Federal Reserve Archive

Congressional Record (online access 1873-   ) via HeinOnline.  Trascription of the congressional debates.