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Okie
(redirected from Dust Bowl migrant)

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Okie
a system of grading of feeder calves purchased for feedlots and based on percentage of beef versus dairy blood in the breeding. The bulk of these cattle are yearling, baldy-faced, Hereford cross steers. The name is a contraction of Oklahoma.


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``About Life: The Photographs of Dorothea Lange'' at the Getty covers her work from 1920-60 and is paired with Horace Bristol's 1937 photo series on Dust Bowl migrants in California's Central Valley.
The novel, which chronicled the bleak plight of Dust Bowl migrants to California, was widely perceived as being just this side of socialist propaganda.
The paving project opened up California to waves of Dust Bowl migrants and those uprooted by the Great Depression.
 
 
 
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