Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp desert plants the Sierra historian Francis Farquhar

the Sierra historian Francis Farquhar wrote Place Names of the High Sierra

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Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp desert plants the Sierra historian Francis FarquharIllus. with photographs from the Dust Bowl era. This true story took place at the emergency farm labor camp immortalized in Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. Ostracized as "dumb Okies," the children of Dust Bowl migrant laborers went without schooluntil Superintendent Leo Hart and 50 Okie kids built their own school in a nearby field. Describes the plight of the migrant workers who traveled from the Dust Bowl to California during the Depression and