Drought in the Nineteenth-Century Southern Plains
by
Kevin Z. Sweeney
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Before the drought of the early twenty-first century, the dry benchmark in the American plains was the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. But in this eye-opening work, Kevin Z. Sweeney reveals that the Dust Bowl was only one cycle in a series of droughts on the U.S. southern plains. Reinterpreting our nation’s...