Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp
Illus. with photographs from the Dust Bowl era. This true story took place at the emergency farm-labor camp immortalized in Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath . Ostracized as "dumb Okies," the children o…
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