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Remaking the Agrarian Dream : New Deal title: Rural Resettlement in the Mountain West author: Cannon, Brian Q. publisher: University of New Mexico isbn10 | asin: 0826317162 print isbn13: 9780826317162 ebook isbn13: 9780585178981 language: English Migration, Internal--United States, Farmers- -United States--Social conditions, New subject Deal, 1933-1939, United States--Social conditions--1933-1945. publication date: 1996 lcc: HB1952.C36 1996eb ddc: 333.3/1 Migration, Internal--United States, Farmers- -United States--Social conditions, New subject: Deal, 1933-1939, United States--Social conditions--1933-1945. Page i Remaking the Agrarian Dream Page ii Page iii Remaking the Agrarian Dream New Deal Rural Resettlement in the Mountain West Brian Q. Cannon University of New Mexico Press / Albuquerque Page iv ©1996 by the University of New Mexico Press All rights reserved. First Edition Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Cannon, Brian Q. Remaking the agrarian dream : New Deal rural resettlement in the Mountain West / Brian Q. Cannon. 1st ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8263-1716-2 (cloth) 1. Migration, InternalUnited States. 2. FarmersUnited StatesSocial conditions. 3. New Deal, 19331939. 4. United StatesSocial conditions19331945. I. Title. HB1952.C36 1996 333.3'1dc20 95-32528 CIP Page v Contents List of Tables and Figures vii Preface ix 1. Rural Resettlement: An Overview 1 2. "To Rearrange the Earth and the People Thereof,": 9 Planning the Resettlement Program 3. "We're Going to a Land of Snowcapped Mountains" 25 4. "Everything Was Different": Learning to Farm in New 57 Ways 5. The Farmers and Market Forces 73 6. "In the Manner of Economic Men": Theoretical 89 Implications of the Relocatees' Behavior 7. "The Clients Are One Body" 97 8. "A Matter of Cool, Rational Self-Interest": The 115 Relocatees and the New Deal 9. Achievements 133 10. In Retrospect: The Meaning of the Resettlement 149 Experience Notes 157 Bibliography 181 Index 189 Illustration section follows page 36

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This is the first in-depth account of the federal resettlement program that relocated more than a thousand impoverished families from submarginal dryland farms to federally sponsored irrigated farms in New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Utah, Idaho, and Montana during the 1930s and early 1940s. Each res
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Remaking the Agrarian Dream : New Deal title: Rural Resettlement in the Mountain West author: Cannon, Brian Q. publisher: University of New Mexico isbn10 | asin: 0826317162 print isbn13: 9780826317162 ebook isbn13: 9780585178981 language: English Migration, Internal--United States, Farmers- -United States--Social conditions, New subject Deal, 1933-1939, United States--Social conditions--1933-1945. publication date: 1996 lcc: HB1952.C36 1996eb ddc: 333.3/1 Migration, Internal--United States, Farmers- -United States--Social conditions, New subject: Deal, 1933-1939, United States--Social conditions--1933-1945. Page i Remaking the Agrarian Dream Page ii Page iii Remaking the Agrarian Dream New Deal Rural Resettlement in the Mountain West Brian Q. Cannon University of New Mexico Press / Albuquerque Page iv ©1996 by the University of New Mexico Press All rights reserved. First Edition Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Cannon, Brian Q. Remaking the agrarian dream : New Deal rural resettlement in the Mountain West / Brian Q. Cannon. 1st ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8263-1716-2 (cloth) 1. Migration, InternalUnited States. 2. FarmersUnited StatesSocial conditions. 3. New Deal, 19331939. 4. United StatesSocial conditions19331945. I. Title. HB1952.C36 1996 333.3'1dc20 95-32528 CIP Page v Contents List of Tables and Figures vii Preface ix 1. Rural Resettlement: An Overview 1 2. "To Rearrange the Earth and the People Thereof,": 9 Planning the Resettlement Program 3. "We're Going to a Land of Snowcapped Mountains" 25 4. "Everything Was Different": Learning to Farm in New 57 Ways 5. The Farmers and Market Forces 73 6. "In the Manner of Economic Men": Theoretical 89 Implications of the Relocatees' Behavior 7. "The Clients Are One Body" 97 8. "A Matter of Cool, Rational Self-Interest": The 115 Relocatees and the New Deal 9. Achievements 133 10. In Retrospect: The Meaning of the Resettlement 149 Experience Notes 157 Bibliography 181 Index 189 Illustration section follows page 36

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This is the first in-depth account of the federal resettlement program that relocated more than a thousand impoverished families from submarginal dryland farms to federally sponsored irrigated farms in New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Utah, Idaho, and Montana during the 1930s and early 1940s. Each res
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