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Waiting for Work: Ex-tenant farmer from Texas, came to work in the fruit and vegetable harvests. Coachella Valley, California.

Example of self-resettlement in California. Oklahoma farm family on highway between Blythe and Indio. Forced by the drought of 1936 to abandon their farm, they set out with their children to drive to California. Picking cotton in Arizona for a day or…

Mother and father travel from Oklahoma to California with eleven children in search of stable farming due to drought.