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The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan, analyzes the hardships and experiences of families, teenagers and cowboys during the early twentieth century when the Dust Bowl was flourishing rampant in the southern plains. Timothy Egan introduces his liberal background to infuse his argument that the federal government did not do enough to help the people who were being held prisoner to hundreds of thousands of air particles. Egan shows how the abundance of lucious land in the plains was easily destroyed by neglect of finances in the area and the terrible storm that swarmed all the life that existed. He believes that even some small businesses, such as railroad companies, ran the area into the ground when it was on the way to flourish by not providing

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