Literature review on Worster and Andrews

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the Ludlow massacre so in this way the two books are similar. This review will attempt to summarize, compare and contrast both works.
Dust Bowl starts off with the beginning of the depression and a drought of 1930. Worster mentions how droughts were expected in the plains and a little dust along with them. But not one was prepared for the destructive dust storms that made the drought seem like a secondary problem and left the plains in economic and physical ruin. In the fall of 1933, the plains region began to be hit by a series of dust storms that gave the book and the area their name, the dust bowl. What caused the disaster to reach these proportions was the additional factor of people. The plains were notorious for drought and the wind was often strong but those things on their own were not enough to cause the dust bowl. People were persistent and continued to plow up the land, enduring the drought cycle. With the prairie grasses gone, the farmers plow breaking the top ...

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give homes to only 1/16th as many people as the Homestead Act. Although he was ignored at first, Worster points out that in the 1890’s (when farmers first started having a hard time growing crops with no rain) and again in the 1930’s, Powell began to look like a prophet. Worster also mentions that if the beef bonanza could be taken as a precedent, Powell’s idea may not have prevented the dirty thirties but at least the idea was more thought out and better planned than just trying to grow crops in a drought ridden area.
Times like the great depression caused Americans to pause for a moment and think about conservation. This would not be the first time; the nation had done so before ...

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