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title:Land of Plenty : Oklahomans in the Cotton Fields of Arizona, 1933-1942
author:Weisiger, M. L.
publisher:University of Oklahoma Press
isbn10 | asin:0806126965
print isbn13:9780806126968
ebook isbn13:9780585148823
language:English
subjectMigrant agricultural laborers--Arizona--History--20th century, Migrant agricultural laborers--Oklahoma--History--20th century, Cotton picking--Arizona--History--20th century, Migration, Internal--United States--History--20th century--Case studies.
publication date:1995
lcc:HD1527.A6W45 1995eb
ddc:331.5/44/09791
subject:Migrant agricultural laborers--Arizona--History--20th century, Migrant agricultural laborers--Oklahoma--History--20th century, Cotton picking--Arizona--History--20th century, Migration, Internal--United States--History--20th century--Case studies.
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Land of Plenty
Oklahomans in the Cotton Fields of Arizona, 19331942
Marsha L. Weisiger
University of
Oklahoma Press
Norman and London
Page iv
This book is published with the generous assistance of The McCasland Foundation, Duncan, Oklahoma.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Weisiger, M. L. (Marsha L.)
Land of plenty : Oklahomans in the cotton fields of Arizona, 1933
1942 / Marsha L. Weisiger.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8061-2696-5
1. Migrant agricultural laborersArizonaHistory20th century.
2. Migrant agricultural laborersOklahomaHistory20th century.
3. Cotton pickingArizonaHistory20th century. 4. Migration,
InternalUnited StatesHistory20th centuryCase studies.
1. Title.
HD1527.A6W45 1995Picture 2Picture 3Picture 4Picture 594-36880
331.5'44'09791dc20Picture 6Picture 7Picture 8Picture 9CIP
Text design is by Cathy Carney Imboden. The typeface is Berkeley Old Style Medium.
The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources, Inc. Picture 10
Copyright 1995 by the University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Publishing Division of the University. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the U.S.A.
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In memory of
my mother and father,
Rose Marie Weisiger and
John Marshall Weisiger,
and my friend
Betti Arnold Albrecht
Page vii
Contents
List of Illustrations
ix
Preface
xi
1. Prologue
3
2. Exodus
7
3. Factories in the Fields
32
4. Crisis in the Fields
52
5. An Industry on Trial
86
6. Migrant Communities
98
7. Epilogue
147
Notes
163
Bibliography
213
Index
229
Page ix
Illustrations
Photographs
Picture 11
1. Home of a tenant farmer
18
Picture 12
2. May Avenue camp
28
Picture 13
3. Camping under the May Avenue bridge
29
Picture 14
4. Plant quarantine station
50
Picture 15
5. Farm Labor Service handbill
56
Picture 16
6. Three refugee families
57
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