Part one of term paper
The Dust Bowl, written by R. Douglas Hurt explores the Dust Bowl and the effects it had on the societies who dealt with it. The Dust Bowl is a vast area stretching across the Great Plains from Oklahoma to Colorado. Hurt includes precise locations of specific dust storms that took place from the early 1800’s until the 1930’s and on. Als ...

Part two of term paper
... The Amarillo Daily News and the Amarillo Globe are two resources frequently used by Hurt. Amarillo, Texas was the sight of the most tremendous dust storm to occur in the 1930’s; therefore Hurt was able to use this resource to great advantage when preparing the book. During March and April of 1935, Amarillo, Texas, and Dodge City, Kansas had twenty-eight, and twenty-six dust storm throughout their towns. The dust storms were often times massive and destroyed crops, houses and the lives of a ...