Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Winter 1934
Beginning: August 1920
Rabbit Battles
Losing Livie
Me and Mad Dog
Permission to Play
On Stage
Birthday for F.D.R.
Not Too Much To Ask
Mr. Hardly’s Money Handling
Fifty Miles South of Home
Rules of Dining
Breaking Drought
Dazzled
Debts
Foul as Maggoty Stew
State Tests
Fields of Flashing Light
Spring 1934
Tested by Dust
Banks
Beat Wheat
Give Up on Wheat
What I Don’t Know
Apple Blossoms
World War
Apples
Dust and Rain
Harvest
On the Road with Arley
Summer 1934
Hope in a Drizzle
Dionne Quintuplets
Wild Boy of the Road
The Accident
Burns
Nightmare
A Tent of Pain
Drinking
Devoured
Blame
Birthday
Roots
The Empty Spaces
The Hole
Kilauea
Boxes
Night Bloomer
The Path of Our Sorrow
Autumn 1934
Hired Work
Almost Rain
Those Hands
Real Snow
Dance Revue
Mad Dog’s Tale
Art Exhibit
Winter 1935
State Tests Again
Christmas Dinner Without the Cranberry Sauce
Driving the Cows
First Rain
Haydon P. Nye
Scrubbing Up Dust
Outlined by Dust
The President’s Ball
Lunch
Guests
Family School
Birth
Time to Go
Something Sweet from Moonshine
Dreams
The Competition
The Piano Player
No Good
Snow
Night School
Dust Pneumonia
Dust Storm
Broken Promise
Motherless
Following in His Steps
Spring 1935
Heartsick
Skin
Regrets
Fire on the Rails
The Mail Train
Migrants
Blankets of Black
The Visit
Freak Show
Help from Uncle Sam
Let Down
Hope
The Rain’s Gift
Hope Smothered
Sunday Afternoon at the Amarillo Hotel
Baby
Old Bones
Summer 1935
The Dream
Midnight Truth
Out of the Dust
Gone West
Something Lost, Something Gained
Homeward Bound
Met
Autumn 1935
Cut It Deep
The Other Woman
Not Everywhere
My Life, or What I Told Louise After the Tenth Time She Came to Dinner
November Dust
Thanksgiving List
Music
Teamwork
Finding a Way
About the Author
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