The worst hard time review5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() It tells the story of a few people in a small portion of a great nation. Timothy Egan’s The Worst Hard Time, a book that made a brief appearance on the New York Times list of bestsellers and is a National Book Award finalist, is a fascinating little slice of history. What had once been rich farmland was left as little more than desert. ![]() As the drought continued year-after-year, a large percentage of the population was forced to migrate away from the effected States. The soil blew upwards and eastwards, forming great clouds that traveled across the continent, sometimes blanketing Chicago, New York and Washington. However, after the war ended, a time of drought hit the Western part of the continent and the soil dried out to become dust. Sod was turned upside down and wheat grew as never before. The First World War had made many farmers wealthy as the price of wheat soared, and as it did so, millions of acres of new sod was broken throughout the Plains. Sponsor Show Your Support Become a Patron ![]()
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