Paul Taylor: “Again the Covered Wagon”

Glossary

• Associated Farmers cooperative formed by California farmers to oppose organization and strikes by farmworkers
• Calipatria small city in Imperial County, California
• Commonwealth Club public affairs discussion forum founded in California in 1903
• El Camino Real six-hundred-mile road that connects twenty-one Spanish missions along the California coast
• El Centro largest city in the Imperial Valley and the county seat of Imperial County
• FERA Federal Emergency Relief Administration, created by President Franklin Roosevelt in 1933 as the Emergency Relief Administration and replaced in 1935 by the Works Progress Administration
• Home Sweet Home traditional song (“Home, Sweet Home”) dating from the nineteenth century, with melody by Englishman Sir Henry Bishop and lyrics by American dramatist John Howard Payne; most famous for the lyric “Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home”
• Imperial Valley agricultural region in Southern California, noteworthy for a blend of Anglo and Mexican cultures
• Lancer title of a daily editorial column written by Harry C. Carr for the Los Angeles Times from 1924 until his death in 1936
• Matanuska Valley area in south-central Alaska
• mestizo person of mixed race, particularly of Spanish and indigenous descent
• Mission San Jose Spanish Catholic mission in present-day Fremont, California
• 'round the Horn in '51 allusion to California gold prospectors who traveled by ship around Cape Horn, the southernmost tip of South America, to get to the West Coast of the United States
• San Joaquin Valley large agricultural region in central California, part of the Central Valley
• syndicalist referring to a radical labor movement active in the early twentieth century
• Tehachapi probable reference to the Tehachapi Mountains near Tehachapi, a town in Southern California near the San Joaquin Valley
• Townsend plan old-age pension system devised by physician Francis Everett Townsend and that influenced the development of the U.S. Social Security system