Living With Dust During the Great Depression in the 1930’s, every person in the United States faced hardships, whether those hardships involved, poverty, hunger or loneliness. In the Great Plains, however, people were faced with a very different hardship, dust. During the 1930’s and lasting almost an entire decade, the Great Plains experienced a serious drought. The country was in enough trouble as it was, and this made things much worse. Because of the dryness …showed first 75 words of 1060 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1060 total…was wise beyond her years. She held on to values. She realized important things in life. She said, “The way I see it, hard times aren’t only/about money, /or drought, /or dust. /Hard times are about losing spirit, /and hope, /and what happens when dreams dry up.” (Hesse, 1997, p.225) Reference Page Hesse, K. (1997). Out of the Dust. New York: Scholastic. Vogeler, Ingolf. The Dust Bowl. 1-2. http://www.usd.edu/anth/epa/dust