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Agricultural industry in Imperial Valley, California.
History of farm labor in California in the 1930s.
Information on the Arvin Government Camp.
Dorothea Lange's study on "Migrant Mother."
A series of Depression-era photos by Dorothea Lange with their original captions.
"A Photo Essay on the Great Depression" from Modern American Poetry.
The Dust Bowl with maps, photographs and timeline.
Baumhardt, Louis R. "Dust Bowl Era". United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Bushland, Texas.
"Dust Bowl," a brief video by The History Channel.
"The Dust Bowl Migration: Poverty Stories, Race Stories"
Report on migrant labor camps in California written during the 1930s.
Timeline of key events associated with the Dust Bowl.
Teacher's guide for viewing and discussing PBS's documentary on "Surviving the Dust Bowl."
Benson, Jackson. John Steinbeck, Writer. New York: Penguin, 1984.
Steinbeck, John . The Grapes of Wrath and Other Writings: 1936-1941. By John Steinbeck. Ed.Robert DeMott and Elaine Steinbeck. New York: Library of America, 1996.
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Timeline of the Dust Bowl. PBS.org. Web. 20 July 2009.
Whitt, Jan. "To Do Some Good and No Harm: The Literary Journalism of John Steinbeck." Steinbeck Review 3.2 (2008): 41-62. Project MUSE. Web. 6 Apr. 2009.
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