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Women of Dust and Wind - The Hands and Hearts of Survival: Women of the Dust Bowl

Women of Dust and Wind - The Hands and Hearts of Survival: Women of the Dust Bowl

Clare, Glenda K.

Paperback

Health General20th Century United States History

ISBN13: 9798374155372
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 12 2023
Pages: 84
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.17 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Lydia is a young girl at the beginning of the 20th century. She dreams of a fairy tale marriage and a world that will match all her hopes. However during the 1930s and 1940s, nature challenges the Midwest with grasshoppers, dust, and drought. Strong women, like Lydia, found a way for their family to survive.

The women of the home - wives and mothers - worked to help their family survive. Searching for food and learning to live on little money, they struggled to feed their families. But most of all, they fought the dust and wind. Dirt seeped into any crevice of the house. Dust blew through the cracks of the windows. Dust covered the babies' mouths forcing them to cough up black soil in the mornings. But the mothers and wives fought against grasshoppers which threatened their gardens, the paint on their house, and any item where they landed.

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