KU Common Book 2013: Betrayal, 1931-1933

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 second section, Betrayal, 1931-1933, as well as links to electronic collections.

6. First Wave

McElvaine, R. S. (1993).  The Great Depression: America, 1929-1941New York:  Times Books.

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

Galbraith, J. K. (1955).  The great crash:  1929Boston:  Houghton Mifflin.

Terkel, S. (1970).  Hard times:  An oral history of the Great DepressionNew York:  Random House.

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.

7. A Darkening

Bryant, Jr., K. L. (1968).  Alfalfa Bill MurrayNorman:  Univ. of Oklahoma Press.

Hurt, R. D. (1981).  The Dust Bowl:  An agricultural and social historyChicago:  Nelson-Hall.

Svobida, L. (1940).  An empire of dustCaldwell, ID:  Caxton Printers.

8. In A Dry Land

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

Bonnifield, P. (1979).  The Dust Bowl:  Men, dirt and the Depression.  Albuquerque:  Univ. of New Mexico Press.

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

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Brink, W. (1951).  Big Hugh:  The father of soil conservation.  New York:  MacMillan.

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Svobida, L. (1940).  An empire of dust.  Caldwell, ID:  Caxton Printers.

9. New Leader, New Deal

McElvaine, R. S. (1993).  The Great Depression: America, 1929-1941.  New York:  Times Books.

Schlesinger, Jr., A. M. (1957).  The age of Roosevelt:  The crisis of the Old Order, 1919-1933.  Boston:  Houghton Mifflin.

Freidel, F. (1990).  Franklin D. Roosevelt:  A rendezvous with destiny.  Boston:  Little, Brown.

Johnson, V. (1934).  Heaven's tableland:  The Dust Bowl story.  New York:  Farrar, Straus.

Brink, W. (1951).  Big Hugh:  The father of soil conservation.  New York:  MacMillan.

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10. Big Blows

Whitnah, D. R. (1961).  History of United States Weather Bureau.  Champaign:  Univ. of Illinois Press.

   Request this via Interlibrary Loan.


Periodicals

The Dalhart Texan

   Request older issues via Interlibrary Loan.

Boise City News

 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.