American Exodus the Dust Bowl Migration and Okie Culture in California, Paperback - James N. Gregory

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Reducere. Before the drought of the early twenty-first century, the dry benchmark in the American plains was the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. But in this eye-open...

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Reducere. Runner-up, National Council on Public History Book Award, 2008The 1930s exodus of "Okies" dispossessed by repeated droughts and failed crop prices ...

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