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A Mount Holyoke graduate who lived in the northeast corner of No Man’s Land just north of Boise City, Oklahoma. She married a farmer after college and moved west. Caroline and her husband suffered from their inability to plant crops, and they stopped altogether in 1934 due to persistent drought. She later contributed to the Atlantic Monthly’s “Letters from the Dust Bowl” feature.
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Caroline Henderson Character Timeline in The Worst Hard Time
The timeline below shows where the character Caroline Henderson appears in The Worst Hard Time. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 11: Triage
Caroline Henderson , a farmer’s wife and Mount Holyoke graduate who lived in No Man’s Land, clung...
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Chapter 12: The Long Darkness
Fred Folkers eventually lost his orchard, and “the life-draining drought” killed the trees that Caroline Henderson had planted. People were running out of food. The last of the grain from the...
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Chapter 20: The Saddest Land
...misery. The Atlantic Monthly carried a series called “Letters from the Dust Bowl” written by Caroline Henderson . She wrote about the “bad days of wind and dust.” She wrote nothing during...
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