Part 14 (1/2)
Kansas State professor's estimate of volume of dust, as reported by Amarillo Daily News, Amarillo Daily News, April 22, 1935. April 22, 1935.
Hi Barrick's duties from his oral history on file at Oral History Program, Oklahoma Historical Society, previously cited.
Descriptions of rabbit clubbings from Boise City News Boise City News and oral history of Verdela Harriman Fry, on file at Oral History Program, Oklahoma Historical Society, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, author visit September 6, 2003. and oral history of Verdela Harriman Fry, on file at Oral History Program, Oklahoma Historical Society, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, author visit September 6, 2003.
16: BLACK SUNDAY.
Description of weather that morning, author interviews with Ike Osteen, Melt White, and Norma Gene b.u.t.terbaugh Young, all previously cited, and newspaper accounts.
Osteen activities, from author interview with Ike Osteen, and Mr. Osteen's book, A Place Called Baca, A Place Called Baca, previously cited. previously cited.
Description of storm hitting Dodge City from Black Sunday: The Great Dust Storm of April 14, 1935, Black Sunday: The Great Dust Storm of April 14, 1935, Frank L. Stallings, Jr. (Austin, Texas: Eakin Press, 2001). Frank L. Stallings, Jr. (Austin, Texas: Eakin Press, 2001).
Lucas funeral from Hazel Shaw's previously cited book, Suns.h.i.+ne and Shadows, Suns.h.i.+ne and Shadows, and and Boise City News, Boise City News, various editions, April 1935. various editions, April 1935.
Trucks in ditch and sky black in Boise City from remembrance of Louise Fairchild, as told to Natalie Weaver and Andrew Randolph in Boise City Language Arts cla.s.s, 1999, on file at Cimarron Heritage Center, Boise City, Oklahoma.
Folkers's experience from Faye Folkers Gardner's previously cited book, So Long, Old Timer! So Long, Old Timer!
Story of Joe Garza and saving the child from interview with Garza, recorded 1985 (no month), on file at Oral History Program, Oklahoma Historical Society, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, author visit September 8, 2003.
The a.s.sociated Press team, from AP dispatches, chiefly the one sent the day after Black Sunday, April 15, 1935, printed in the Amarillo Daily News, Amarillo Daily News, April 15, 1935. April 15, 1935.
When storm hit Denver from photos and records on file at Denver Public Library, Western History Department, Denver, Colorado, author visit May 12, 2004.
How the Germans fared from author interviews with Ehrlichs, July 18, 2003, and Borths, September 12, 2003.
What happened to Ehrlich, from Willie Ehrlich oral history, Oral History Program, Oklahoma Historical Society, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, recorded July 17, 1986.
Black as night from Berenice Jackson, Oral History Program, Oklahoma Historical Society, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, author visit September 6, 2003.
When the storm hit Texas Panhandle from Amarillo Daily News, Amarillo Daily News, April 15, 1935. April 15, 1935.
Woody Guthrie account from a recording made March 21, 1940, between Guthrie and Alan Lomax, as presented on ”Woody Guthrie on Weekend Edition, Oct. 20, 1996,” from the transcript.
17: A CALL TO ARMS.
Bob Geiger dispatches from a.s.sociated Press filings, previously cited.
Hugh Bennett waiting for storms to call for aid from previously cited USDA biography and Brink, Big Hugh, Big Hugh, and news accounts, as well as government booklet, ”The National Gra.s.slands Story,” United States Department of Agriculture-Forest Service (Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C.: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1964). and news accounts, as well as government booklet, ”The National Gra.s.slands Story,” United States Department of Agriculture-Forest Service (Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C.: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1964).
Land ”essentially destroyed,” from USDA, Yearbook of Agriculture 1935, Yearbook of Agriculture 1935, previously cited. previously cited.
Beginnings of conservation plans from The Soil Conservation Service, The Soil Conservation Service, D. Harper Simms (New York: Praeger Publishers, 1970). D. Harper Simms (New York: Praeger Publishers, 1970).