Cindy Vallar

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1930s Resources

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Dust Bowl           
Great Depression            Kansas            Life in the 1930s            William Quantrill

(Links verified 6/13/2020)
Dust Bowl

“Driest Summers in the Midwest Were in the 1930s,” USA Today (weather focus)

Guthrie, Woody. "Blowin’ Down This Road," Woody Guthrie.
Guthrie, Woody. "Dust Bowl Blues
," Woody Guthrie.
Guthrie, Woody. "Dust Can’t Kill Me," Woody Guthrie.
Guthrie, Woody. "Dust Pneumonia Blues," Woody Guthrie.
Guthrie, Woody. "So Long It's Been Good to Know Yuh (Dusty Old Dust)," Woody Guthrie.
Guthrie, Woody. "The Great Dust Storm," Woody Guthrie.
Guthrie, Woody. "Talking Dust Bowl Blues," Woody Guthrie.

Low, Ann Marie.  Dust Bowl Diary. University of Nebraska Press, 1984.

Nelson, Lynn. "Living with Dust," The Kansas Collection.

Riney-Kehrberg. Rooted in Dust: Surviving Drought and Depression in Southwestern Kansas. University Press of Kansas, 1994.

Surviving the Dust Bowl. American Experience, 2019.
Svobida, Lawrence. Farming the Dust Bowl: A First-hand Account from Kansas. University Press of Kansas, 1986.

Tice, D. J. "Dust Bowl Sisters," Pioneer Press. 7 December 1997.
 
Voices from the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection, 1940-1941. Library of Congress.

West, James. "The 1930s Dust Bowl," USA Today 23 November 1999. 
Worster, Donald. Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s. Oxford, 1979.

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The Great Depression

The 1930s
. Greenhaven Press, 2000.

Allsop, Kenneth. Hard Travelin’: The Hobo and His History. New American Library, 1967.

"The Depths of Depression,” Today in History - July 8, Library of Congress.

Elder, Glen H. Children of the Great Depression. Westview, 1998.

Fisher, Jim. "Hobo Jungle Dinners a Blessing to Many," Kansas City Star.

The Great Depression. The History Channel.

Himmelberg, Robert F. The Great Depression and the New Deal. Greenwood, 2001.
Holderby, Edward. "We Didn’t ‘Survive’ the Depression: We Were Living!" Countryside and Small Stock Journal (May/June 1995), 74.
 
A Kernel More: Suitcase Farmers – Government Farm Policy

McElvaine, Robert S. "Fear Itself: Depression Life," The Great Depression: America 1929-1941. Times Books, 1993.

Our Glorious Century. Reader’s Digest, 1994.

Photographs from the FAS-OWI, 1935-1944. Library of Congress.
Press, Petra. The 1930s. Lucent Books, 1999.

Riding the Rails. American Experience. PBS, 2013.

Terkel, Studs. Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression. Pantheon, 1970.

Uys, Errol Lincoln. Riding the Rails: Teenagers on the Move During the Great Depression. Penguin, 1993.

'We Had Everything but Money'. Reiman Publications, 1992.
Wiebe, Mark. "America’s Century: How We Changed – Struggle of the '30s Spawns Federal Aid," Kansas City Star (10 October 1999).
Winslow, Susan. Brother Can You Spare a Dime? Paddington, 1976.

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Kansas

Stafford, Susan. "Tornado," Voices, Spring 1998.


Life in the 1930s

1999 Johnson County Fair Provides (advertising supplement)

Bradley, Luella. "Warm Holiday Memories Return from Childhood," Lancaster Sunday News (12 December 1999).

Cope, Lewis. "Country Traditions: The Harvest Moon," Country America (September, 1995).

Encyclopedia of Rural America. Garland, 1990.

Gerry, Sarah. "In Kansas, Cheap Energy Could be a Breeze," Kansas City Star.
Graham, Lamar. "Where Have All the Small Towns Gone?" Parade Magazine (13 December 1998). 


The Inflation Calculator
 
"Hoover Administration," Presidential Administration Profiles for Students. Gale Group, 2000.


"Private Eyes," Radio Days.
 
Sears Catalogs from the 1930s
Smith, Doug. “Legend of a Lawman," Country America (September, 1995).


Toys from the 30s – Back to Basics Toy Catalog


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William Quantrill

"Dr. Bell Rides from 'Jaws of Hell'," Blue Valley Gazette (8 May 1980).

Eye, James. Kansas. Source unknown (10 April 1980).

Hermon, Gregory. "Johnson County History: Execution Caused Escalation in Border War," Northeast Johnson County Star (10 January 1986).
Hisey, Mary. Speech given at GAR in Olathe, Kansas on 29 January 1910.

Leslie, Edward E. The Devil Knows How to Ride: The True Story of William Clarke Quantrill and His Confederate Raiders. Random House, 1996.

Map of Olathe. Daily News, Kansas (7 September 1980).

"Quantrell Murders En Route to Olathe," The News (5 May 1961).
"Quantrel’s Raid of Olathe," Olathe Weekly Herald (15 January 1897).
"Quantrill Made Three Hits Before Lawrence," Manhattan Mercury (20 April 1980).
"Quantrill’s Raiders Pillaged Cities in County," Sun Newspapers (2 July 1976).

Schultz, Duane. Quantrill’s War: The Life and Times of William Clark Quantrill. St. Martins Griffin, 1996.
Staab, Rodney. "Raid Against Quantrill Launched Locally," Journal Herald (13 August 1986).

"This Week in Kansas History: August 15-21," The Florida Times Union (19 August 1999).
"The Trail of Bloody Bill," Blue Valley Gazette (13 November 1980).

"Violence Stirs Kansans' Memories," Kansas City Star (19 May 1970).

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