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Your search for: great AND plains AND dust AND bowl


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Books on: great plains dust bowl

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Journal Articles on: great plains dust bowl

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Magazine Articles on: great plains dust bowl

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Newspaper Articles on: great plains dust bowl

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    Think It's Dry Today? Dust Bowl Puts Our Current Drought in Perspective
    Newspaper article by Victoria Pierce; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), July 15, 2005
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    Think Its Dry Today? Dust Bowl Puts Our Current Drought...blew the topsoil off the Great Plains to the west and south...abandoned At that point, the Great Plains were being abandoned...Steinbeck wrote about the great migration of weary souls...
     
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    Drought Sparks Dust Bowl Memories
    Newspaper article by Victoria Pierce; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), July 16, 2005
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    Drought Sparks Dust Bowl Memories. by Victoria Pierce Byline...Nebraska. The year was 1936, and the Dust Bowl years of drought and heat had taken...memories of the stark landscape of the Great Plains in 1936. "It scares me, that. We...
     
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    Founder, Leader of Long Grove's Montessori School
    Newspaper article by Eileen O. Daday; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), February 8, 2007
    Subjects: 
    Elementary school students, Historic buildings
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...where her father ran a furniture store. As a teenager, she and her family weathered both the Great Depression, and the Dust Bowl that hit the Great Plains region. Mrs. Riley attended junior college in Oklahoma, and soon after graduation she married...
     
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    Editorials
    Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), July 24, 2005
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...starving because a drought and plague of locusts are destroying crops. There was our own dust bowl during the Great Depression. It turned the Great Plains into desert, and whole populations fled the region in an exodus of survival. And while...
     
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    Shanes Gum Deal ; Unmistakable: Shane MacGowan Is Famous for His Gumsy Grimace
    Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 21, 2008
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...bringing tears to the Great Mans eyes. James...QUESTION What caused the dust storms which hit...area known as The Great Plains of North America...Thirties, the dust bowl years were fast approaching...across the Mid West plains, lifting off the...
     

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Encyclopedia Articles on: great plains dust bowl

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    Great Plains
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...the central Great Plains were called the Great...pioneers bypassed the Great Plains. The railroads were...states had resulted in dust storms and the devastation...crops (see Dust Bowl ). Bibliography See W. P. Webb, The Great Plains (1931, repr...
     
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    Drought
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...large land areas often suffer damage from dust storms or fire. Drought is thought by some...death. In 1930 lack of rainfall devastated the Great Plains of the United States; called the Dust Bowl , its area spread to alarming dimensions...
     
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    Oklahoma
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...high, short-grass plains of W Oklahoma are part of the Great Plains , which are...Tulsa were among the great natural gas and petroleum...well as to nomadic Plains tribes, who put up...still enormous. The Dust Bowl In World War I the...
     
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    Kansas , State, United States
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...part of the Great Plains , Kansas is famous...cm). Occasional dust storms plague farmers...was once part of a great shallow sea and has...droughts accompanied by dust storms, occasional...depression. As part of the Dust Bowl, Kansas sustained...
     

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