Children of the Dust
Subtitle: An Okie Family Story (Plains Histories)
Contributors: Sandra Jean Scofield (Editor)
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Published: October 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9780896725850
Subjects: Oklahoma; United States - 20th Century; History; Biography / Autobiography; United States - State & Local - Midwest; Tenant farmers; History: American; Regional Subjects - Midwest; United States - 20th Century/Depression; Biography; Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939
Description: "Dust Bowl memoir of a family who held on tenant-farming in Oklahoma years after their relatives westered to California. Focuses on Henshaw's father, who would not leave until he could pay his way to California, and on her parents' strong marriage and how it sustained the family of eleven"--Provided by publisher.