Dustbowl
Books
Dust Bowl : The Southern Plains in the 1930s by Donald Worster. New York : Oxford University Press, 1979. McHenry Stacks F786.W87
Dust Bowl Diary by Ann Marie Low. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c1984. McH Stacks F636.L92 1984 Farming the Dust Bowl : a First-Hand Account from Kansas by Lawrence Svobida Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, 1986, c1940. Science & Engineering Library Stacks S623.S87 1986. 255 p. Originally published as An empire of dust, 1940.
Empire of Dust : Settling and Abandoning the Prairie Dry Belt / David C. Jones. Edmonton : University of Alberta Press, 1987. McH Stacks F1079.5.A43J66 1987
Dust Bowl, USA : Depression America and the Ecological Imagination, 1929-1941 / Brad D. Lookingbill. Athens : Ohio University Press, c2001 McH Stacks F595 .L66 2001
Letters from the Dust Bowl / by Caroline Henderson ; edited by Alvin O. Turner. Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c2001 McH Stacks F702.N6 H46 2001
Children of the Dust Bowl : the true story of the school at Weedpatch Camp / Jerry Stanley ; illustrated with photographs. New York : Crown, c1992 Child Curric LC5152.C2S73 1992 Describes the plight of the migrant workers who traveled from the Dust Bowl to California during the Depression and were forced to live in a federal labor camp and discusses the school that was built for their children.
California and the Dust Bowl Migration by Walter J. Stein.
Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press [1973]
McH Stacks HD1527.C2S76 1973
American Exodus : the Dust Bowl Migration and & Okie Culture in California / James N. Gregory.
New York : Oxford University Press, 1989.
McH Stacks HB1985.C2G74 1989
The Worst Hard Time : The Untold Story of those who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl / Timothy Egan
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2006
McH Stacks F595 .E38 2006
Video
Surviving the Dust Bowl / PBS The American Experience ; McHenry Library Media Center VT5782 1 videocassette (57 min.)
The Grapes of Wrath / Twentieth Century-Fox presents Darryl F. Zanuck's production c2007 Media Center DVD5838
Our Daily Bread and other films of the Great Depression / Film Preservation Associate c1999 McHenry Media Center DVD1410 Originally released as a motion picture made in 1934, and other short films produced in the 1930s
Summary: Our Daily Bread (King Vidor 1934) is a depression-era drama in which a young couple leads a group of unemployed people in making a communal farm succeed. Includes a prologue to the movie by King Vidor. -- The fake newsreels "California Election News #1 and #2 (1934), were secretly produced by MGM as "dirty tricks" in the film industry's political war against Upton Sinclair. -- The River (Pare Lorentz 1937) dramatizes the stripping of the Mississipi River basin and the effort to restore this region. -- The Plow that Broke the Plains (Pare Lorentz 1936) focuses on the ecological and human tragedy of the Dust Bowl. -- Power and the Land (Rural Electrification Administration), elevates the photogenic Parkinson family to iconic figures of Americana. -- The New Frontier is a government documentary Media Center VT3302
The plow that Broke the Plains [videorecording] : a U.S. documentary film ; The River : a U.S. documentary film / written and directed by Pare Lorentz Media Center DVD4803
America Comes of Age II Online
Images
On the Dirty Plate Trail : Remembering the Dust Bowl Refugee Camps / texts by Sanora Babb ; photographs by Dorothy Babb. Austin : University of Texas Press,
McH Stacks HD5856.U5 B33 2007
Sound Recording/Music
Guthrie, Woody, 1912-1967. Dust bowl Ballads. [Sound recording] Folkways Records FH 5212. [1964] Media Center L812
Guthrie's of "Dust Bowls Blues"
"This Land is Your Land" with Dorthea Lange Images
http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/107356/review/5940604/dustbowlballads Rolling Stone review of Guthrie with links to samples. Guthrie inspired Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen.
