KU Common Book 2013: Blowup, 1934-1939

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 third section, Blowup, 1934-1939, as well as links to electronic collections.

11. Triage

Parfit, M. (1989).  The Dust Bowl.  SmithsonianJune.

Henderson, C. (1933).  Letters of two women farmers.  Atlantic MonthlyAugust.

Henderston, C. (2001).  Letters from the Dust Bowl.  Norman:  Univ. of Oklahoma Press.

12. The Long Darkness

Butterbaugh Young, N. G. (1989).  Footsteps:  Family histories of Cimarron County, Oklahoma.  Amarillo, TX:  Southwestern Publications.

   Request this title via Interlibrary Loan.

13. The Struggle for Air

Spiegel, H. J. & Gruber, A. (1983).  From weather vanes to satellites.  New York:  John Wiley & Sons.

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14. Showdown in Dalhart

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

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.

 

15. Duster's Eve

Butterbaugh Young, N. G. (1989).  Footsteps:  Family histories of Cimarron County, Oklahoma.  Amarillo, TX:  Southwestern Publications.

   Request this title via Interlibrary Loan.

16. Black Sunday

Stallings, Jr., F. L. (2001).  Black Sunday:  The great dust strom of April 14, 1935.  Austin, TX:  Eakin Press.

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17. A Call to Arms

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

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Simms, D. H. (1970).  The Soil Conservation Service.  New York:  Praeger Publishers.

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Butterbaugh Young, N. G. (1989).  Footsteps:  Family histories of Cimarron County, Oklahoma.  Amarillo, TX:  Southwestern Publications.

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Leuchtenburg, W. E. (1963).  Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal.  New York:  Harper & Row.

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Schlesinger, A. M. (1957).  The age of Roosevelt.  Boston:  Houghton Mifflin.

Watkins, T. H. (1990).  Righteous pilgrim: The life and times of Harold L. Ickes, 1874-1952.  New York:  Henry Holt.

18. Goings

19. Witnesses

Rothstein, A. (1978).  The depression years.  New York:  Dover Publications.

Snyder, R. (1994).  Pare Lorentz and the documentary film.  Reno:  Univ. of Nevada Press.

Lange, D. (1939).  An American exodus: A record of human erosion.  New York:  Reynal & Hitchcock.

20. The Saddest Land

Gregory, J. N. (1989).  American exodus: The Dust Bowl migration and Okie culture in California.  New York:  Oxford Univ. Press.

21. Verdict

Ickes, H. L. (1953).  Secret diary of Harold L. Ickes: The first thousand days, 1933-1936.  New York:  Simon & Schuster.

22. Cornhusker II

23. The Last Man

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. 

Gregory, J. N. (1989).  American exodus: The Dust Bowl migration and Okie culture in California.  New York:  Oxford Univ. Press.

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

23. Cornhusker III

25. Rain

Periodicals

The Dalhart Texan

   Request older issues via Interlibrary Loan.

Boise City News

   Request older issues via Interlibrary Loan.

New Outlook magazine

New York Times (online from 1851-2009)

Amarillo Daily News

   Request older issues via Interlibrary Loan.

 Yearbook of Agriculture (online 1927-1978)

New York Times Magazine

 Request older issues via Interlibrary Loan.

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.