The Dust Bowl /
Therese DeAngelis and Gina DeAngelis.
- Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, c2002.
- 116 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- Great disasters, reforms and ramifications .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 109-110) and index.
The end of the world -- The breadbasket of the world -- Trouble in wheat heaven -- Mean skies and hard times -- The Okie migration -- A New Deal for the Dust Bowl -- The rains return.
Discusses the disastrous drought in the United States during the 1930s which made a "dust bowl" out of part of the Great Plains, which caused great hardship for farmers, and the enactment of programs and reforms to help the people and land.