Selected Bibliography


Andryszewski, Tricia. The Dust Bowl: Disaster on the Plains. Brookfield, CT: The Millbrook Press, 1993.

Baldwin, Sidney. Poverty and Politics: The Rise and Decline of the Farm Security Administration. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1968.

Bonnifield, Paul. The Dust Bowl: Men, Dirt, and Depression.Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1979.

Farris, John. The Dust Bowl. San Diego: Lucent Books, Inc., 1989.

Fleischhauer, Carl and Beverly W. Brannan, eds. Documenting America, 1935-1943. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.

Gregory, James N. American Exodus: The Dust Bowl Migration and Okie Culture in California.Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.

Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette. Gendered Transitions: Mexican Experiences of Immigration. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.

Hurt, R. Douglas. The Dust Bowl: An Agricultural and Social History.Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1981.

Kirstein, Peter N. Anglo over Bracero: A History of the Mexican Worker in the United States from Roosevelt to Nixon.San Francisco: R and E Research Associates, 1977.

McWilliams, Carey. Ill Fares the Land: Migrants and Migratory Labor in the United States.New York: Barnes & Noble, Inc., 1941.

Riney-Kehrberg, Pamela. Rooted in Dust: Surviving Drought and Depression in Southwestern Kansas.Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1994.

Shindo, Charles J. Dust Bowl Migrants in the American Imagination.
Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1997.

Stanley, Jerry. Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1992

Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath.New York: The Viking Press, 1939.


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