Introduction: Live Through This -- I promise: Great Plowup, 1901-1930: Wanderer -- No man's land -- Creating Dalhart -- High plains Deutsch -- Last of the great plowup -- Betryal, 1931-1933: First Wave -- Darkening -- In a dry land -- New leader, New Deal -- Big blows -- Blowup, 1934-1939: -- Triage -- Long darkness -- Struggle for Air -- Showdown in Dalhart -- Duster's eve -- Black Sunday -- Call to arms -- Goings -- Witnesses -- Saddest land -- Verdict -- Cornhusker II -- Last men -- Cornhusker III -- Rain -- Epilogue -- Notes and sources -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
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