Paul Taylor: “Again the Covered Wagon”

( 1935 ) Commentary by Michael J. O'Neal, Independent Scholar

Taylor, Paul Schuster. “Migratory Farm Labor in the United States.” Monthly Labor Review 44, no. 3 (March 1937): 537–549.
Taylor, Paul Schuster, and Tom Vasey, “Drought Refugee and Labor Migration to California, June–December 1935.” Monthly Labor Review 42, no. 2 (February 1936), pp. 312–318.

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Hurt, R. Douglas. Documents of the Dust Bowl. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2019.
Lange, Dorothea, and Paul Taylor. An American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion. Paris: Éditions Jean-Michel Place, 1999.
Swensen, James R. Picturing Migrants: “The Grapes of Wrath” and New Deal Documentary Photography. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2015.
Taylor, Paul Schuster. An American-Mexican Frontier, Nueces County, Texas. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1934.
Taylor, Paul Schuster. On the Ground in the Thirties. Layton, UT: Gibbs Smith, 1983.

“Many Indigents Seeking Help in California.” Desert Sun of Palm Springs 10, no. 52 (July 30, 1937): 4. California Digital Newspaper Collection, UCR Center for Bibliographic Studies and Research. https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=DS19370730.2.45&srpos=6&e=-------en--20-DS-1--txt-txIN-many+indigents-------1.
Paul Schuster Taylor: California Social Scientist. Vol. 1, Education, Field Research, and Family. Earl Warren Oral History Project, Calisphere, University of California. http://content.cdlib.org/view?docId=ft5q2nb29x&&doc.view=entire_text.

Migrant workers' camp in California (Library of Congress)

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