Summary Of Letters For The Dust Bowl

Eight, six, four, two--the Dust Bowl makes them go achoo. The articles “Letters for the Dust Bowl” by Caroline A. Henderson and "The Untold Stories of Those Who Survived The Great American Dust Bowl” By Timothy Egan describe the living conditions the civilians had to live through. Numerous people were affected by the living conditions of the Dust Bowl(Dust Bowl was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture).

First and foremost, the Dust Bowl affected the lives of the people who had to live through it because they were trying to keep the dust out of their houses so they would not get sick. Henderson stated, “Wearing our shade hats, with handkerchiefs tied over our faces and vaseline in our nostrils…” (Henderson 1). The people who were living through the Dust Bowl were doing everything that they could to keep themselves from getting sick. All in all, people were trying hard not to get sick from the dust. Moving forward into how some people started to move away from the Dust Bowl.

The second article stated, “Through No Man’s Land, the family wheeled past fields that had been turned, the grass upside down.” (Egan 9). In No Man’s Land there was no grass because the land was torn up and there was a small amount of grass. All in all, during the time period that the family was traveling through No Man’s Land it sounds like No Man’s Land was a dark and gloomy place where nobody would like to go. Going further, the Dust Bowl was not what most people and families would want to live