Print
Word
PDF|
This section contains 131 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) |
|
Caroline Henderson lived on a farming homestead in Oklahoma in the 1930s with her husband and children. The dust storms of the 1930s struck terror into the hearts of many who had worked so hard to cultivate the semiarid earth. In 1935 she wrote:
There are days when for hours at a time we cannot see the windmill fifty feet from the kitchen door. There are days when for briefer periods one cannot distinguish the windows from the solid wall because of the solid blackness of the raging storm. Only in some Inferno-like dream could anyone visualize the terrifying lurid red light overspreading the sky when portions of Texas "are on the, air."
Source: T. H. Watkins, The Great Depression (Boston: Little, Brown. 1993)
|
This section contains 131 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) |
|
