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Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s. Donald Worster. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
This book is a reprint of Donald Worster's classic chronicle, Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s, in a twenty-fifth anniversary edition with a new afterword. The story has been readdressed by many scholars in those twenty-five years. Most writers agreed with him concerning the devastation wrought by the drought of the 1930s. Indeed, Worster's argument that the damage to the wealth of nature could be attributed to economic invasion and destruction of grasslands has held up. Long before the term was commonly employed, Worster, a professor of history at the University of Kansas, was writing environmental history. The Kansas exodusters and the displaced Okies had much in common-they faced the wrath not of God but of man...