The Great American Dust Bowl Kindle Edition
Author: Don Brown ID: B00FO824RU
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File Size: 28029 KBPrint Length: 80 pagesPublisher: HMH Books for Young Readers (October 8, 2013)Publication Date: October 8, 2013 Sold by: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Language: EnglishID: B00FO824RUText-to-Speech: Not enabled X-Ray: Not Enabled Word Wise: Not EnabledLending: Not Enabled Enhanced Typesetting: Not Enabled Best Sellers Rank: #44,552 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store) #1 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Teen & Young Adult > Education & Reference > Science & Technology > Science & Nature #2 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Children’s eBooks > Science, Nature & How It Works > Earth Sciences #2 in Books > Teens > Education & Reference > Science & Technology > Disasters
On April 14, 1935, temperatures dropped fifty degrees and sixty-five-miles-an-hour winds lifted arid and barren soil from Wyoming and the Dakotas, and then continued its destructive southern course to displace tons of dirt throughout much of the American Plains. Better known as Black Sunday, this storm has been earmarked as the worst of the Dirty Thirties, a decade of dust storms in the 1930s. During this time period, there were almost 200 dust storms that plagued this region. The main concentration of these storms settled in a rough circle of land, known as the Dust Bowl, which consisted of sections of New Mexico, Colorado, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Texas. However out of all these storms, none had produced such vast physical and environmental damage like Black Sunday, and it took this storm to send a wake up call to the U.S. government.
To understand how and why these dust storms evolved, Brown takes readers back millions of years from the geological developments of the Rocky Mountain range and the American Plains and what the land was like when Native Americans freely roamed the continent, to Brown’s uncomplicated explanation of the adverse effects U.S. history had on the growth and progress of agriculture. By the time drought inundated the American Plains in 1931, particularly the Dust Bowl region, Brown aptly states that, “the drought tortured the land, evaporating the moisture in the soil…when the wind blew, dust storms followed.” These dust storms led to harsh temperatures and the encroachment of bugs and jackrabbits.
On May 9, 1934, winds whipped up again, and this time from Montana and the Dakotas, taking with it 350 million tons of dirt, which created gritty clouds that reached fifteen thousand feet.
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