A review by johnmarlowe
The Dust Bowl: An Illustrated History by Dayton Duncan, Ken Burns

4.0

This is an excellent companion book to the Ken Burns PBS series. It’s the simultaneous story of the extreme hardship in the 1930’s with the story of man’s consuming of resources which caused the extreme hardship. A sentence from one of the admirable people in the book, Caroline Henderson, tells it all when she talks about the consumption of water in the Ogallala aquifer which started at the end of the Dust Bowl: “Here again we come up against the hard fact that every material resource comes to an end unless constantly replenished.”