Book Review: The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl

Authors

Pamel Riney-Kehrberg, Iowa State University

Date of this Version

2006

Comments

Published in GREAT PLAINS QUARTERLY 26:4 (Fall 2006). Copyright © 2006 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

Abstract

Egan's The Worst Hard Time is a literary and journalistic treatment of the Dust Bowl's impact on the southern Great Plains. He follows the history of the region from the agricultural development of the early twentieth century through the events of the 1930s, focusing on the states of Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Oklahoma, and Texas.