Dust Bowl Diary

by Ann Marie Low

Book Overview

"Life in what the newspapers call 'the Dust Bowl' is becoming a gritty nightmare," Ann Marie Low wrote in 1934. Her diary vividly captures that "gritty nightmare" as it was lived by one rural family--and by millions of other Americans. The books opens in 1927--"the last of the good years"--when Ann Marie is a teenager living with her parents, brother, and sister on a stock farm in southeastern North Dakota. We follow her family and friends, descendants...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803279132
• ISBN13: 9780803279131
• Release Date: December 1984
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.4"