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The Journal of C. J. Jackson, a Dust Bowl Migrant, Oklahoma to California, 1935 (My Name Is America)
The Journal of C J Jackson a Dust Bowl Migrant Oklahoma to California 1935 - My Name Is America Author:William Durbin April 10, 1935The dust has been blowing bad for several years in a row now. And with crop failures coming back to back like they have, hundreds of families have lost their farms. A Monday never passes without Sheriff Jake Allison posting a notice of foreclosure at the Boise City courthouse. Times are so rough, that when they hold an auction t... more »o sell a place, the only people that show up are the banks and the insurance companies. Nobody else has a nickel.C.J. Jackson is a young man living through one of the most tragic times in the Dust Bowl of an America fraught with political, economic, and environmental problems. In this intense journal of life in the Oklahoma panhandle, C.J. tells it like it is-and it is bad.« less