Summary Of The Worst Hard Time By Timothy Egan

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In the book The Worst Hard Time,created by Timothy Egan,talks about stories from different people who lived in a Dust Bowl.The story sets with a description of the setting and takes place after the Great depression has happened.His goal in this book was to inform the readers on how the Dust Bowl affected many people and uses stories to describe how the Dust Bowl was like.The author also describes the book as a horrible place to live in by describing the ferocious storms how it and affected many of the survivors on how they lived today.
The story Sets of with Bam White who was a traveling with his family.While traveling His horse died causing Bam White and his family to be stuck in a place called No Man’s Land.In No Man’s Land it was described

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