very good book, stunning when describing the days of the dust bowl. i also liked how he described some of the new deal efforts to help out the farmers and ranchers there trying to help them cope with dustfields and starving horses and cows. however, the postdustbowl chapter was exceedingly short. kinda disappointing when, after 300 pages of predustbowl and dustbowl, that less than ten pages covered the postdustbowl.