NON-FICTION BOOKS Allen, Steve, The Ground is Our Table, 1966

Alvarado, Arturo Rocha, Cronica de Aztlan:  A Migrant’s Tale,  1977

Astro, Ricard, John Steinbeck and Edward F. Ricketts: The Shaping of Novelists
813.52

Atkins, S. Beth, Voices From the Fields: Children of Migrant Farmworkers

Babb, Sanora,  An Owl On Every Post

Babb, Sanora, The Lost Traveler

Babb, Sanora, Whose Names are Unkown

Barrett, Marvin, The Years Between
909.82

Below Bear Mountain
917.9488

Benson, Jackson, Looking for Steinbeck's Ghost

Benson, Jackson, The True Adventures of John Steinbeack - writer

Blum, Daniel, Pictorial History of Television

Bonnifield, Paul, The Dust Bowl: Men, Dirt and Depression
978

Borhan, Pierre, Dorothea Lange: The Heart and Mind of a Photographer

Burmeister, E., Below Bear Mountain
917.9488

Burmeister, Eugene, The Golden Empire, Kern County, Calif.
979.488

California Council for the Humanities, Highway 99

Carlton, Sheffield, John Steinbeck, the Good Companion  

Carson, Phil, American Axe 

Coles, Robert, Uprooted Children

Cornford, Daniel (editor), Working People in California

Critical Essays on Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath
813.54

Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne, Red Dirt

Durden, Mark, Dorothea Lange 55

Family Traditions
810.807

Farris, John, The Dust Bowl
J978 FAR

Fisher, Lloyd Horace, The Harvest Labor Market in California

Fontenrose, Joseph, John Steinbeck
813

French, Warren, A Companion to The Grapes of Wrath
813

Galan, Hector, New Harvest Old shame, 1990

Galarza, Ernesto, Merchants of Labor: the Mexican Bracero Story

Galati, Frank, John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath
813.54 GAL

Ganzel, Bill, Dust Bowl Descent
R779.9978

Gregory, James Noble
American Exodus: The Dust Bowl Migration and Okie Culture in California, 1989
304.87940766

Guthrie, Woodie, Bound for Glory
784.492

Guthrie, Woodie, Pastures of plenty: a self-portrait
921GUT

Harmon, Robert Bartlett, John Steinbeck; Toward A Bibliography of Bibliographies
A016.813

Haslan, Gerald, Working Man Blues

Hayashi, T., Steinbeck: Bibliography
016.813

Hayashi, T., Steinbeck's Literary Dimension
813.52

Heaps, Willard Allison, Wandering Workers:

Hoffman, Abraham, Unwanted Mexican Americans in the Great Depression
325.272

Holland, Ruth (Robin), The Forgotten Minority:  America’s Tenant Farmers

Hughart, Ron, The Place Beyond the Dust Bowl

Jennings, Peter, "In Search of America,"  note pages 244-245.

Johnson, Vance, Heaven’s Tableland: The Dust Bowl Story

Janke, Katelan, Survival in the Storm: The Dust Bowl diary of Grace Edwards: Dalhart,Texas, 1935

 

Janke, Katelan,  My Name is America,

Kostyu, Frank A., Shadows in the valley

Lange, Dorothea & Taylor, Robert, An American Exodus: A Record of Human

Lauber, Patricia, Dust Bowl: The Story of Man on the Great Plains

Lesy, Michael, Bearing Witness
973

Levine, Bruce, Who Built America
305.562

Levy, Jacques E., Cesar Chavez:  Autobiography of La Causa,  1975

Libraries and Culture, a journal of library history, volume 38/number 1/fall 2003,University of Texas Press  (article by Marci Lingo, titled FORBIDDEN FRUIT: The Banning of THE GRAPES OF WRATH in the Kern County Free Library,  page 351)

Lindop, Modern Amercia:
J917.303

Low, Ann Marie, Dust Bowl Diary
978.4032

Martin, Philip L., Harvest of Confusion:  Migrant Workers in U.S. Agriculture, 1988

McDaniel, Wilma, A Prince Albert Wind  (and additional books)  

McNutt, Randy and Buchanan, Roy,  Guitar Towns: A Journey to the Crossroads of Rock 'n' Roll

McQuarrie, Jack, Wildcrafting: Harvesting the Wilds for a Living, 1975

McWilliams, C., Factories in the Field
331.8

McWilliams, Cary, Ill Fares the Land

Meltzer, Milton, Brother, can you spare a dime?
330.973

M.G.M. Story

Moore, Truman E., Slaves We Rent

Morgan, Dan, Rising in the West
979.03MOR

Muller, Thomas, The Fourth Wave:  California’s Newest Immigrants

Okie faces and Irish eyes
810.807

Parini, Jay, John Steinbeck: a Biography

Partridge, Elizabeth, This Land was Made for You and Me

Reef, Catherine, John Steinbeck 

Roberts, Maurice, Cesar Chavez and La Causa, 1986

Rowland, Robert H., All Around the Mulberry Bush 

Sandage, Shirley, Child of Hope

Sanders, Sue,The Real Causes of our Migrant Problem

Schamberger, John Edward, Steinbeck and the Migrants:  A Study of the Grapes of Wrath

Shindo, Charles, Dust Bowl Migrants in the American Imagination

Shotwell, Louisa rossiter, The Harvesters, the Story of the Migrant People, 1961

Speer, Bonnie, Hillback to Boggy

Speer, Bonnie, Sons of Thunder

Stanley, Jerry, Children of the Dust Bowl, the true story of the school at Weedpatch Camp

Starr, Kevin, Endangered Dreams

Stein, Walter, California and the Dust Bowl Migration, 1973

Steinbeck, John, The Harvest Gypsies:  On the Road to the Grapes of Wrath
331.544

Steinbeck, John, Journal of a Novel
813.52

Steinbeck, John, Their Blood is Strong

Strickland Smith, Elizabeth, Route 66 to the Fields of California

Taylor, Paul, Thirties
R338.1097

Tessitore, John, John Steinbeck,A Writer's Life 

The Grapes of Wrath in Kern County
979.488

The Turbulent Thirties

This Fabulous Century 1930-1940: Hard times and the Hungry Years.
917.303

Thompson, Kathleen & Mac Austin, Hilary (editors), Children of the Depression

Wallis, Michael, Route 66: the Mother Road
917.8043 WAL

Weiner, Sandra, Small Hands, Big Hands

Whiteside, Johnny, Ramblin' Rose: the Life and Career or Rose Maddux

Wolf, Bernard, In This Proud Land: The Story of a Mexican American, 1978

Worster, Donald E., Dust Bowl:  The Southern Plains in the 1930s

Wright, Dale, They Harvest Despair: The Migrant Farm Worker, 1965

Young, Jan, The Migrant Workers and Cesar Chavez, 1974

FICTION Betancourt, Jeann, Not Just Party Girls

Durbin, William, The Journal of C. J. Jackson, A Dust Bowl Migrant, Oklahoma to California, 1935

Garst, Doris Shannon, Wish On an Apple

Gates, Doris, Blue Willow

Haslam, Gerald, MASKS

Haslam, Gerald, Snapshots

Haslam, Gerald, That Constant Coyote: California Stories

Haslam, Gerald, The Wages of Sin

Hesse, Karen, Out of the Dust

Lampman, Evelyn Sibley, Go Up the Road

Snyder, Zilpha Keatley, Velvet Room

Steinbeck, John, The Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John, In Dubious Battle

Strang, Celia, Foster Mary

Taylor, Ronald B., Long Road Home

Taylor, Theordore, The Maldonado Miracle

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MAGAZINES American Heritage, August 1977

"Bakersfield Sound", Bakersfield Country - volume 5

"Children of the Grapes of Wrath", American West, March/April 1986

"Dust Bowl", Memories, December 89/January 90

"Dust Bowl", National Geographic, sept. 1984

Law, William, "Problems of the Migratory Student"
California Journal of Secondary Education (March 1939)

 

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REPORTS:  found at the Beale Memorial Library
                                           701 Truxton, Bakersfield, California
                                           805/861-2136
                                           inquire about restrictions on use Adams, R.L., "Seasonal Labor Needs for California Crops: Kern County," 1937

Allen, Gary, "The Grapes: Communist Wrath in Delano," 1966

Ballis, George, "Bastal La Historia de Nuestra Lucha," 1966

California, Legislature, Senate, "Delano Grape Strike," 1967

California. Legislature, Senate.
"Recruitment and Placement of Farm Laborers in California," 1951

Collins, Thomas (Weedpatch Camp Director)
"Kern Migratory Labor Camp Reports," 1936

Galarza, Ernesto, "Mexican-Americans in the Southwest," 1970

Kern County (CA) Department of Public Health
"Survey of Kern County Migratory Labor Problem," 1937

"Migrant Labor in Kern County, CA," 1935

National Advisory Committee of Farm labor
"Farm Labor Organizing, 1905-1967: a Brief History," 1967

United States Congress, House Committee
"Investigation of labor-management relations, Hearing," 1950

Schamberger, John Edward
"Steinbeck and the Migrants: A study of the Grapes of Wrath," 1960

Woodworth, Harold E., "The present Immigration into California," 1937
 

Found at California State University, Bakersfield library Hart, Leo B., "A Report on the Development of Kern County Schools, 1939-1946"

 

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NEWSPAPER ARTICLES from The Bakersfield Californian           located at the Beale Memorial Library
                                                                PO Box 440                                                          701 Truxton
                                                                Bakersfield, California                                      Bakersfield, CA
                                                                (661) 395-7500                                         (661) 868-0770 Reference & Research
   1937 - 1939 "Work or Face Kern Vagrancy Charge Is Sheriff Ultimatum," 10/8/37

"Kern Possesses 40 Per Cent of Needy Migrants in State," 5/9/38

"Californian Protest - Johnson to Receive Petitions From Many Cities," 12/28/38

"Huge Migrant Petition Goes to Congress," 1/9/39

"Local Staff Writer Studies Migrant Situation in Kern County," 8/3/39 A

"Migratory Problem Studied by Writer," 8/3/39 B

"Migrants Regard Sue Sanders as True Friend," 11/20/39

"California Absorption of Migrants Is Predicted," 11/30/39

             Saunders, Mae -" Series on Migrants" - August 1939

"Kern County - Agricultural Workers Health," 8/14/39

"Migratory Camp Gives Haven for Wanderers," 8/18/39 A

"Migratory Camp Is Studied by Writer," 8/18/39 B

"Kern Growers Praised for Measures to Help Agricultural Labor," 8/22/39