From the Book - 1st pbk. ed.
Contemporary accounts: the plight of farmers in the Great Depression, 1931-1936
Historians view the dust bowl years
Searching for explanations: the media response
Modern bibliography of the dust bowl / by Jay H. Buckley.
Contemporary Accounts: The Plight of Farmers in the Great Depression, 1931-1936
Early Dust Bowl Distress and Anger, 1931-1932
Share Croppers Are Drought Victims, New York Times, January 27, 1931
Get Away From Those Cows, Colliers, February 27, 1932
The Farmers Go on Strike, 1932-1933
Why the Farmers' Holiday, Milo Reno memoirs, July 20, 1932
The Farmers Go on Strike, New Republic, August 31, 1932
Nebraska Farmers in Action, New Republic, January 18, 1933
Farmers March on Washington, 1932
Capital Police to Permit Farmers' March, New York Times, November 1, 1932
Corn Belt Farmers to Move on Capital, New York Times, November 27, 1932
Police Plan to Bar March on Capital, New York Times, November 29, 1932
Hunger on the March, The Nation, December 28, 1932
New Violence in the Midwest, 1933
Teachers Stage New Chicago Riot, New York Times, April 27, 1933
Iowa Farmers Abduct Judge From Court, New York Times, April 28, 1933
Iowa Troops Rule Farm Riot Areas, New York Times, April 29, 1933
Drought, Heat Waves, and Dust Storms From the Great Plains, 1934-1936
Huge Dust Cloud, Blown 1,500 Miles, Dims City, New York Times, May 12, 1934
Drought, Dust, Disaster, Time, May 21, 1934
Dust Changes America, The Nation, May 22, 1935
Letters From the Dust Bowl, Atlantic Monthly, May 1936
Rainmaking and Rainmakers
Rain Machines Fail, Kansas Tries Prayer, New York Times, July 1, 1934
The President's Devils Lake [North Dakota] Speech, New York Times, August 8, 1934
Roosevelt, "Rain Maker," New York Times, August 9, 1934
South Dakota City Prays, New York Times, July 11, 1936
Historians View the Dust Bowl Years
Plains Women: Rural Life in the 1930s, by Dorothy Schwieder and Deborah Fink, Great Plains Quarterly (1988)
Farmer Rebels in Plymouth County, Iowa, 1932-1933, by Rodney D. Karr, Annals of Iowa (1985)
"A God-forsaken Place": Folk Eschatology and the Dust Bowl, by Brad Lookingbill, Great Plains Quarterly (1994)
Vehicles for Expressing the Farmers' Rage
The Farm Holiday Movement in Nebraska, by John L. Shover, Nebraska History (1962)
The North Dakota Farm Strike of 1932, by Larry Remele, North Dakota History (1974)
Resolutions, Programs, and Policies of the North Dakota Farmers' Holiday Association, 1932-1937, by James W. Dodd, North Dakota History (1961)
Restrained, Respectable Radicals: The South Dakota Farm Holiday, by John E. Miller, Agricultural History (1985)
Agrarian Radicals: The United Farmers League of South Dakota, by Allan Mathews, South Dakota History (1973)
Searching for Explanations
Radical Rule in Montana, by Charles Vindex, Montana, Magazine of Western History (1968)
The Plow That Broke the Plains: Film Legacy of the Great Depression, by Vernon Carstensen
Rethinking the Farm Revolt of the 1930s, by William C. Pratt, Great Plains Quarterly (1988)
The Dirty Thirties: A Study in Agricultural Capitalism, by Donald Worster, Great Plains Quarterly (1986)
Dust Bowl Historiography, by Harry C. McDean, Great Plains Quarterly (1986).