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on the dirty plate trail BBaabbbb bbooookk..iinnddbb ii 11//2233//0077 66::2244::1133 PPMM published from the collections of the hrc Harry Ransom Stuart Gilbert, Refl ections on James Joyce: Stuart Gilbert’s Paris Journal, ed. Thomas F. Staley and Randolph Lewis. 1993 Humanities Ezra Pound, The Letters of Ezra Pound to Alice Corbin Henderson, ed. Ira B. Nadel. 1993 Research Nikolay Punin, Nikolay Punin: Diaries, 1904–1953, ed. Sidney Monas Center and Jennifer Greene Krupala, trans. Jennifer Greene Krupala. 1999 Aldous Huxley, Now More Than Ever, Imprint ed. 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Reginald Gibbons. 2007 BBaabbbb bbooookk..iinnddbb iiii 11//2233//0077 66::2244::1133 PPMM Edited with Introduction and Commentaries by Douglas Wixson On the Dirty Plate Trail remembering the dust bowl refugee camps sanora babb Texts by dorothy babb Photographs by University of Texas Press Austin BBaabbbb bbooookk..iinnddbb iiiiii 11//2233//0077 66::2244::1133 PPMM All photographs Copyright © 2007 by Douglas Wixson are courtesy of All rights reserved the Harry Ransom Printed in the United States of America Humanities First edition, 2007 Research Center, The University of Requests for permission to reproduce material from this book should be sent to: Texas at Austin. Permissions University of Texas Press Excerpt from Whose P.O. Box 7819 Names Are Unknown Austin, TX 78713-7819 © 2004 University www.utexas.edu/utpress/about/bpermission.html of Oklahoma Press. Reprinted with ∞ The paper used in this book meets the minimum requirements of permission. ansi/niso z39.48-1992 (r1997) (Permanence of Paper). library of congress cataloging-in-publication data Babb, Sanora. On the dirty plate trail : remembering the Dust Bowl refugee camps / texts by Sanora Babb ; photographs by Dorothy Babb ; edited with introduction and commentaries by Douglas Wixson. — 1st ed. p. cm. — (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center imprint series) Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn-13: 978-0-292-71445-8 ((cl.) : alk. paper) isbn-10: 0-292-71445-9 1. Migrant labor—United States—History—20th century. 2. Migrant agricultural laborers—United States—History—20th century. 3. Labor camps—United States—History—20th century. 4. Dust Bowl Era, 1931– 1939. 5. Dust storms—Great Plains—History—20th century. I. Babb, Dorothy, 1909– II. Wixson, Douglas C. III. Title. hd5856.u5b33 2007 331.5'440979409043—dc22 2006028924 BBaabbbb bbooookk..iinnddbb iivv 11//2233//0077 66::2244::1144 PPMM For Suzanne BBaabbbb bbooookk..iinnddbb vv 11//2233//0077 66::2244::1155 PPMM No writer will write well of people to whom he does not belong; he belongs only when his roots are so deep down that like the oak he cannot be transplanted—at least in imagination. j. frank dobie BBaabbbb bbooookk..iinnddbb vvii 11//2233//0077 66::2244::1155 PPMM contents (Sanora Babb’s texts are in italics) “migrant farmer,” by dorothy babb xii preface xv acknowledgments xix introduction: the babb sisters 1 1 the dirty plate trail 11 2 field notes 47 Oklahoma Panhandle, 1934 49 “Triple A, Dusted Out” 52 Note on the government’s aaa program to reduce hog production and corn acreage 53 The Dispossessed 53 Labor Conditions 55 Farmer-Industrialist 55 Labor Protest 56 Organization of labor 59 Government Camps 60 Fascist characteristics of the campaign against the migratory workers in California 60 Visalia 2/24/38 62 Labor Contractor 64 Kinds of camps in California 65 BBaabbbb bbooookk..iinnddbb vviiii 11//2233//0077 66::2244::1155 PPMM viii Birthrate 66 In answer to the frequent threat . . . 67 On the In the fi elds, 1938 68 Dirty Plate Large Landowners 68 Trail Rag Town 72 Refugee Needs 72 A day in the camps 74 San Joaquin Valley, California, 1938 75 Thirty-seven varieties of religon . . . 77 Striking Workers, Angry Growers 78 March, 1938 82 October 29, 1938 83 Two stories of labor spies 85 Notes for a Novel 87 3 reportage 91 Migratory Farm Workers in California (1938) 92 There Ain’t No Food (1938) 103 Farmers without Farms (New Masses, 21 June 1938) 110 We Sure Struck It Tuff: The Storm 116 Dealing in Major Catastrophes (New Masses, 23 May 1939) 117 Letter to Dorothy Babb (May 1938) 123 4 dust bowl tales 131 The Dark Earth (The Magazine, Nov.–Dec. 1934) 133 Morning in Imperial Valley (Kansas Magazine, 1941) 141 Whose Names Are Unknown 146 5 the dust bowl as site of memory 151 6 epilogue: letters from the fields 157 notes 161 bibliography 165 index 173 BBaabbbb bbooookk..iinnddbb vviiiiii 11//2233//0077 66::2244::1155 PPMM list of illustrations Food on table, fsa camp iii High Plains 2 Sanora Babb with Dust Bowl refugees 4 “Dirty Plate Trail” 6 “Okies” 7 Mexican migrant workers in camp 12 Mexican migrant worker with guitar in camp 12 Slim Quinteros 12 cio camp, Mexican migrant worker with child 12 cio camp, Mexican migrant workers 13 Dust Bowl refugee children 14 Dusted out farmers 15 Home on wheels 15 Weed Patch store 16 Strike committee 18 Strike picket line 18 Picket sign 18 Memorial service, Pixley strike victims 18 Peaches, Calpak orchard, Visalia 19 Loshope family 21 Dust Bowl girl 21 Games, fsa camp 22 Halloween in an fsa camp 22 Refugee farmer and guitar, fsa camp 23 Refugee workers repairing their cars 23 Tom Collins 24 fsa mobile offi ce 24 Tom Collins making calls 24 fsa camp, Shafter 24 Wash day in an fsa camp 25 BBaabbbb bbooookk..iinnddbb iixx 11//2233//0077 66::2244::1155 PPMM
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