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http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/tshome.html  Interesting documentation of migrant work camps in central California in 1940 and 1941.

http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/depression/dustbowl.htm  Timeline of the Dust Bowl.

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s/RADIO/c_w/guthrie.html  Music of the 1930’s.

http://www.fema.gov/kids/floods.htm  What to do during a flood.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/flood/  NOVA, teacher guide about floods.

http://www.noaa.gov/floods.html  Everything you wanted to know about floods.

http://ks.water.usgs.gov/Kansas/pubs/fact-sheets/fs.024-00.html  Significant Floods in the United States During the 20th Century - USGS Measures a Century of Floods.


A list of readings

Angels in the dust / by Margot Theis Raven ; illustrated by Roger Essley. Publisher: Mahwah, N.J. : BridgeWater Books, c1997. (Age 7-9)

A boyhood in the dust bowl, 1926-1934 [computer file] / Robert Allen Rutland. Publisher: Niwot, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, c1995.

Driven from the land : the story of the Dust Bowl / by Milton Meltzer. Publisher: New York : Benchmark Books, 2000.

The Dust Bowl : disaster on the plains / Tricia Andryszewski. Publisher: Brookfield, Conn. : Millbrook Press, c1993. (Age 9-11)

Dust for dinner / story by Ann Turner ; pictures by Robert Barrett. Edition: 1st Harper Trophy ed. Publisher: New York : HarperCollins, 1997, c1995. (Age 7-9)

Letters from the Dust Bowl / by Caroline Henderson ; edited by Alvin O. Turner. Publisher: Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c2001.

Blizzards of South Dakota / by Ethel L. Hellman. Publisher: Millboro SD : Hellman, 1970.

The 1972 Black Hills-Rapid City flood revisited [electronic resource] / by Janet M. Carter, Joyce E. Williamson, and Ralph W. Teller. Variant-Title: 1972 Black Hills Rapid City flood revisited Publisher: [Reston, Va.] : U.S. Geological Survey, [2002]

Night of terror : the Black Hills flood of June 9, 1972 / Natural Disaster Institute. Publisher: Rapid City, S.D. : Natural Disaster Institute, c1976.

Rampage : the story of disastrous floods, broken dams, and human fallibility / Peter Briggs. Publisher: New York : D. McKay Co. [1973]

The Rapid City flood... June 9, 1972 : a unique picture magazine providing a graphic account of Rapid City's most unforgettable moment, June 9, 1972 / compiled and edited by the men and women who survived. Publisher: Lubbock, Tex. : C. F. Boone, c1972.

Dam sites on the Missouri River in South Dakota / comp. by Doane Robinson, secretary and superintendent, Department of history.

What every school administrator should know about the Missouri Basin, its dams and towns in South Dakota / by Sarah Eklo. Publisher: Aberdeen, SD : Northern State College, 1981.

Spearfish : a history / by Paul Higbee & Kathleen Aney. Publisher: Spearfish, S.D. : Black Hills and Bighorns History Project, c2000.

 

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