In this reading Cronon attempts to argue how and why there are different arguments regarding the dust bowl in the United States. First type of narrative that Cronon writes about is the one of settlers making the land into their own during the initial settlement and how the dust bowl was the test of their faith, resolve, and character. In this type of narrative it tends to frame it as humans being resourceful and showing ingenuity in being able to make best of the situation they were in; they were dealing with a natural disaster. The other narrative is one that focuses on who was at fault for making the dust bowl as severe as it was with the blame shifting to the farmers for overworking the land. According to sanchezron13<\/a>\u00a0it was more of man made disaster and like Cronon he also points to the capitalist system of boom and bust as another factor. However is Cronon is referencing another scholar’s argument thats turn capitalism into a force of nature rather than an economic system. But what Cronon wishes to find out is why exactly these arguments are being made in the first and why they chose the framing that they did, which I believe is the one of the most important elements of historiography.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In this reading Cronon attempts to argue how and why there are different arguments regarding the dust bowl in the United States. First type of narrative that Cronon writes about is the one of settlers making the land into their own during the initial settlement and how the dust bowl was the test of their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist300a-spring2017\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist300a-spring2017\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist300a-spring2017\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist300a-spring2017\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist300a-spring2017\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist300a-spring2017\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1818,"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist300a-spring2017\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815\/revisions\/1818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist300a-spring2017\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist300a-spring2017\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.shroutdocs.org\/hist300a-spring2017\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}