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Title: Calling it a "Hard TIme" doesn't do it justice...
Review: Of course I'd seen the photos - but the intensity of the suffering of those who lived through the dust bowl was still not clear to me until I read this. It is certainly not a light, happy read and I would have appreciated a little broader scope to the reporting, but by concentrating on the Texas & Oklahoma panhandles at the epicenter of the disaster Egan has provided a human-scale description of real life in real hard times. I won't be bored the next time I drive through on I-40. From the Cherokee to the XLT ranch to the wheat boom to the dust bowl in less than 80 years, that country saw change like no other.
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