Book looks at mystery, controversy surrounding Spiro Mounds

Relics buried in eastern Oklahoma may have gone unnoticed had it not been for the efforts of a few outraged academics who successfully saved what was left of the Spiro people who lived there hundreds of years earlier.

Great Depression and Dust Bowl depicted in book, photographs

The human misery and environmental calamity this nation’s midsection suffered during the “Dirty Thirties” is recounted in The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (Hough- ton Miff lin; 312 pages plus notes, sources, and index).