I??m almost halfway through the book The Worst Hard Time, terrifyingly fascination stories of the great dust bowl in the 1930??s. Never been to Oklahoma or Northern Texas but for any history buffs out there very interesting, can be a depressing read but hard to put down nonetheless.?ÿ
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Here is an entertaining book involving that same geographic region, specifically Cimarron County, Oklahoma
https://www.amazon.com/stoplight-county-Norma-Butterbaugh-Young/dp/B0006EQY1O
This link tells of other books published by the above author and other women writers from the heart of the dustbowl.
I enjoyed that, as much as one can "enjoy" a book predicated on the misery of others. This is another one that's both engaging and difficult to read:
The gripping true story of an epic prairie snowstorm that killed hundreds of newly arrived settlers and cast a shadow on the promise of the American frontier.
January 12, 1888, began as an unseasonably warm morning across Nebraska, the Dakotas, and Minnesota, the weather so mild that children walked to school without coats and gloves. But that afternoon, without warning, the atmosphere suddenly, violently changed. One moment the air was calm; the next the sky exploded in a raging chaos of horizontal snow and hurricane-force winds. Temperatures plunged as an unprecedented cold front ripped through the center of the continent.
By the next morning, some five hundred people lay dead on the drifted prairie, many of them children who had perished on their way home from country schools. In a few terrifying hours, the hopes of the pioneers had been blasted by the bitter realities of their harsh environment. Recent immigrants from Germany, Norway, Denmark, and the Ukraine learned that their free homestead was not a paradise but a hard, unforgiving place governed by natural forces they neither understood nor controlled.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000QUCO1W/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
For something on the lighter side, A Bright Moon for Fools by Jasper Gibson is worth reading. ?????ÿ
