On the Dirty Plate Trail : : Remembering the Dust Bowl Refugee Camps / / Sanora Babb; ed. by Douglas Wixson.
The 1930s exodus of "Okies" dispossessed by repeated droughts and failed crop prices was a relatively brief interlude in the history of migrant agricultural labor. Yet it attracted wide attention through the publication of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath (1939) and the images of...
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