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Article: Children of the Dust: An Okie Family Story.(Book review)
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- Southwestern American Literature
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- March 22, 2007
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2007 Center for the Study of the Southwest. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Children of the Dust: An Okie Family Story by Betty Grant Henshaw, edited by Sandra Scofield. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2006. 330 pp. $29.95 hardback.
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For the past seven decades nearly every reader has assumed that John Steinbeck's monumental novel The Grapes of Wrath was the definitive and final book that not only dealt with the dispossessed workers and tenant farmers of the Midwest and Southwest who journeyed to California, the promised land of milk and honey, but which also treated those people with fairness and compassion in showing not only their hazardous trips but the social and economic despair that was their ...
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Article: Betty Grant Rawls.(Local)
The Virginian Pilot;
March 10, 2009 ;
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...CHESAPEAKE - Betty Grant Rawls, 58, of the 100 block of Howard Road, passed away March 5, 2009, at Riverside Medical Center, Newport News. Betty ...
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