Sanora Babb: 2 books
On the Dirty Plate Trail
Remembering the Dust Bowl Refugee Camps
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2009
The 1930s exodus of "Okies" dispossessed by repeated droughts and failed crop prices was a relatively brief interlude in the history of migrant agricultural labor. Yet it attracted wide attention through the publication of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath (1939) and the images of Farm Security Administration...
Whose Names Are Unknown: A Novel
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Sanora Babb’s long-hidden novel Whose Names Are Unknown tells of the High Plains farmers who fled drought and dust storms during the Great Depression. Written with empathy for the farmers’ plight, this powerful narrative is based upon the author’s firsthand experience.
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