An American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion |
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acres AIN'T Alabama American Arizona Arkansas Delta August bales California Calipatria CAMP cents cheap Childress County CIMARRON COUNTY cities Coldwater Cotton Belt cotton production crop cultivating DAIRY LANDS Dallas Farm day labor DISPLACED TENANT Dorothea Lange drought DUST BOWL emigrants Exodus families FARM AND DAIRY FARMALL February February 25 gangs goin growers harvest highway HIT'S hundreds Imperial Valley industry irrigated ISSAQUENA COUNTY June June 17 Kern County Landlords LAST WEST leave the farms live LIVIN Lord Louisiana Love County machines mechanization Memphis ment migrants Mississippi mules Negroes NOTHIN November Oklahoma PAUL SCHUSTER TAYLOR percent PICK SEVENTY-FIVE plains planter PLENTY plowing population prairies propertyless renters rural San Joaquin Valley sections settlers sharecroppers slaves soil South Southeast Missouri southern STANFORD STARVE teams and tools TENANT FARMERS tillage towns tractors VANCE wages WANT NO RELIEF westward workers