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The Worst Hard Time

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by Sukey Howard

May, 2006

Sukey's favorite

<b>Sukey's favorite</b> Eronmental catastrophe on a grand scale not only can happen here, it did happen here. In <b>The Worst Hard Time</b>, a brilliantly realized cautionary tale that captures the devastation and horror Dust Bowl survivors lived through, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Timothy Egan illustrates how reckless abuse of the land led to the ecological collapse of the Southern Great Plains during the Depression.