Using the Library of Congress to Advantage to Study

The Dust Bowl Era

Caleb Waddell, Grace Jayjack-Ortega, Amie Mullane, Zach Stein,
Brandy Offenback, Michael Vroman, Gabbi Franco, & Sean Kelleher

Babb, Sanora. (2007). On the dirty plate trail : remembering the Dust Bowl refugee camps. Austin: University of Texas Press.

Bonnefield, Matthew. (1979). The Dust Bowl: Men, Dirt, and Depression.  Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.

Connell, Kate. (2004). Dust Bowl days : hard times for farmers. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society.

Coombs, Karen Mueller. (2000). Children of the dust days. Minneapolis: Carolrhoda Books.

Dewing, Roland. (2006). Regions in transition: the Northern Great Plains and the Pacific Northwest in the Great Depression. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America.

Egan, Timothy. (2006) The worst hard time: the untold story of those who survived the great American dust bowl.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co.

Farris, John. (1989). The dust bowl. San Diego: Lucent Books.

Graham, Ian. (2005). Soil : a resource our world depends on. Chicago: Heinemann Library.

Graves, Kerry. (2002). Going to school during the Great Depression. Mankato: Blue Earth Books.

Gregory, James. (1989). American exodus: the Dust Bowl migration and Okie culture in California. New York: Oxford University Press.

Henderson, Caroline. (2001). Letters from the dust bowl. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.

Hurt, R. Douglas. (1981). The Dust Bowl : an agricultural and social history. Chicago: Nels>Lauber, Patricia. (1958). Dust bowl; the story of man on the Great Plains. New York: Coward-McCann.

Lookingbill, Brad. (2001). Dust Bowl, USA: Depression America and the ecological imagination, 1929-1941.  Athens: Ohio University Press.

Meltzer, Milton. (2000). Driven from the land : the story of the Dust Bowl. New York: Benchmark Books

Reis, Ronald. (2008). The Dust Bowl.  New York: Chelsea House.

Shindo, Charles. (1997).  Dust bowl migrants in the American imagination.  Lawrence: University Press of Kansas.

World Book. (2008). Droughts. Chicago: World Book.

Wunder, John R., Kaye, Frances W., and Carstensen, Vernon, ed. (1999). Americans view their Dust Bowl experience. Niwot, Colo.: University Press of Colorado.