The Worst Hard Time

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Timothy Egan follows a half-dozen families and their communities through th... (more)

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Timothy Egan follows a half-dozen families and their communities through the dust storms that terrorized America's High Plains during the Depression, going from sod huts to new framed houses to basements with the windows sealed by damp sheets in a futile effort to keep the dust out. (less)