Title: A boyhood in the dust bowl, 1926-1934
First published: 1995
Description: The Great Depression and Prohibition are ominous memories in most historical accounts. But here is the true story of a little boy who found life full of excitement, wonder, and joy in the small mid-western town of Okemah, Oklahoma.

Okemah, where Woody Guthrie once lived and wrote songs, was fighting for existence in the late 1920s and early 1930s as the oil boom ended, cotton fell to ten cents per pound, and Prohibition was in force. Yet this grim scenario frames Robert Rutland's colorful remembrance of a youth filled with adventure, characters, curiosity, and love.
Subjects: Social life and customs, Depressions, Biography, Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939, Childhood and youth, City and town life, Oklahoma, social life and customs, Depressions, 1929, Oklahoma, biography
Places: Okemah (Okla.), Oklahoma, Okemah
People: Robert Allen Rutland (1922-)
Time periods: 1929
LC classification: F704.O39 R88 1995