I had to start a new non-fiction book and what a b etter way then to continue on into the 1800's and see what a mess we made with taking away the plains from the Native Americans and the Bison. What a shame.
This is a great book.
Walter Cronkite calls this can't put it down history and he's right!!!

FYI:

This book is written by Pulitzer Prize winning author Timothy Egan, the book won the National Book Award, as well as being A New York Times Editor's Choice, A Washingon State Book Award Winner and a Book Sense Pick.

I'm on Chapter 8, I'm glad I picked up this book, it's holding my interest. It gives me a sense of what living out West must have been like, a constant struggle.

If anything, this book makes me appreciate the time period I live in NOW. Would not have wanted to have lived in the dust bowl. Just breathing all that in must have been so bad.

Very captivating story about this era of American history. The stories of the survivors were excellent.

I highly recommend if you enjoy historical nonfiction.

I knew that the economy then was really bad, and I heard of the Dust Bowl, but I didn't know that the weather, the storms, the dust, the dying of animals and young children and old people was so bad. And the aftermath of bad health for those who did survive, it's unbelieveable what happened, I'm glued to this book, I've got 125 pages left, and the stories are amazing. I learned so much of what it was like back then living out there in the Dust Bowl.