How Long to Read Farming the Dust Bowl

How Long Does it Take to Read Farming the Dust Bowl?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 20 minutes to read Farming the Dust Bowl by Lawrence Svobida

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This is a powerful original account of one man's efforts to raise wheat on his farm in Meade County, Kansas, during the 1930s. Lawrence Svobida tells of farmers "fighting in the front-line trenches, putting in crop after crop, year after year, only to see each crop in turn destroyed by the elements." Although not a writer by trade, Svobida undertook to record what he saw and experienced "to help the reader to understand what is taking place in the Great Plains region, and how serious it is." He wrote of the need for better farming methods--the only way, he felt, the destruction could be halted or confined. Well before the principles of an ecological movement were widely embraced, Svobida urged a public acceptance of the "sovereign rights of the states and the nation to regulate the use of land by owners . . .so that it may be conserved as a national resource." This graphic account of farm life in the Dust Bowl—perhaps the only autobiographical record of Dust Bowl agriculture in existence—was first published in 1941. This new edition contains an introduction by the historian R. Douglas Hurt that not only objectively sets the scene during and after the Dust bowl, but also places the book properly in the growing body of contemporary literature on agriculture and land use. The volume is an important contribution to American agricultural history in general, and the the history of the Depression and of the Great Plains in particular.

How long is Farming the Dust Bowl?

Farming the Dust Bowl by Lawrence Svobida is 255 pages long, and a total of 65,025 words.

This makes it 86% the length of the average book. It also has 79% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Farming the Dust Bowl Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 55 minutes to read Farming the Dust Bowl aloud.

What Reading Level is Farming the Dust Bowl?

Farming the Dust Bowl is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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