![]() ![]() We know the basic story of how settlers in the first decades of the 20th century fanned out through the arid grassland of the Southern Plains, heedlessly stripped off the native sod to plant millions of acres of wheat as global demand (and prices) jumped and suffered catastrophically when drought and depression combined to crash the agricultural boom. Aside from Katrina, it's also probably the most familiar. It was "the nation's worst prolonged environmental disaster," he writes. His last book, the novel "The Winemaker's Daughter," stumbled with critics, but Egan is back on firm ground with his fierce, humane account of the dreams and extremes that crashed head-on during the nearly decade-long calamity of the Dust Bowl. As a New York Times reporter, Timothy Egan has written memorably about how impossible dreams collide with the extreme climates and landscapes of the American West. ![]()
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