Climbing Black Mesa, Oklahoma |
 This is a photograph of part of a map in Timothy Egan’s excellent book, The Worst Hard Time, which is about the great American dust bowl. As Egan notes in his book, “At its peak, the Dust Bowl covered one hundred million acres. … More than a quarter-million people fled the Dust Bowl in the 1930s. … Families in the heart of the black blizzards were … in towns like Guymon and Boise City in Oklahoma”. |