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After her death, she was featured in the Ken Burns 2012 documentary The Dust Bowl. [ 2 ] Her best known work, Whose Names Are Unknown (2004), received much critical acclaim and was a finalist for the 2005 Spur Award for the Best Western Novel [ 3 ] and the 2005 PEN Center USA Literary Award for fiction.
The Dust Bowl was the result of a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s. The phenomenon was caused by a combination of natural factors (severe drought ) and human-made factors: a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent wind erosion , most ...
Dust Bowl is the ninth studio album by blues rock guitarist Joe Bonamassa. It was released worldwide on March 22, 2011. [ 4 ] The cover art is based on a famous 1936 photograph by Arthur Rothstein .
The Dust Bowl disaster of the 1930s in the Great Plains of the central United States; Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. ...
Alchemy was a series of practices that combined philosophical, magical, and chemical experimentation. One goal of European alchemists was to create what was known as the Philosopher’s Stone , a substance that when heated and combined with a non precious metal like copper or iron (known as the “base”) would turn into gold.
A farmer and his two sons during a dust storm in Cimarron County, Oklahoma, April 1936; Resettlement Administration photograph by Arthur Rothstein. Farmer and Sons Walking in the Face of a Dust Storm is a 1936 photograph of the Dust Bowl taken by 21-year-old Arthur Rothstein, a photographer for the federal Resettlement Administration, while he was driving through Cimarron County, Oklahoma.
A scary scene unfolded at a Little League baseball game over the past weekend in Jacksonville, Florida, when a dust devil appeared out of thin air and engulfed a 7-year-old catcher in its ...
At the end of 1937, despite the persistent dust storms, the amount of dangerously eroded land had been reduced by more than half." [2] He remained regional director until 1942. Finnell continued to study wind erosion and land use for the government until his retirement in 1959. [2] He died the following year at his home in California.