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Farming the Dust Bowl: a First-Hand Account from Kansas Softcover - 1986
by Svobida, Lawrence
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- Title Farming the Dust Bowl: a First-Hand Account from Kansas
- Author Svobida, Lawrence
- Binding Softcover
- Edition Reprint; First Printing
- Condition Used - Near Fine
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, U.S.A.
- Date 1986
- Bookseller's Inventory # 7948
- ISBN 9780700602902 / 0700602909
- Weight 0.67 lbs (0.30 kg)
- Dimensions 8.48 x 5.5 x 0.54 in (21.54 x 13.97 x 1.37 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1930's
- Cultural Region: Midwest
- Cultural Region: Plains
- Geographic Orientation: Kansas
- Library of Congress subjects Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939, Svobida, Lawrence
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 86080328
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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From the rear cover
This is the story of Lawrence Svobida, a Kansas wheat farmer who fought searing drought, wind, erosion, and economic hard times in the Dust Bowl. It is a vivid account by a farmer who pitted his physical strength, mental faculties, and financial resources against the environment as nature wreaked havoc across the southern Great Plains. Svobida's description of Dust Bowl agriculture is important not only because it accurately describes farming in that region but also because it is one of the few first-hand accounts that remain of the frightening and still haunting dust-laden decade of the 1930's.