Dust to Eat: Drought and Depression in the 1930s

by Michael L. Cooper

The 1930s in America will always be remembered for twin disasters-the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. Michael L. Cooper takes readers through this tumultuous period, beginning with the 1929 stock market crash that ushered in the Great Depression and continuing with the severe drought in the Midwest, known as the Dust Bowl. He chronicles the everyday struggle for survival by those who lost everything, as well as the mass exodus westward to California...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0618154493
• ISBN13: 9780618154494
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Clarion Books
• Length: 81 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher