Certain to engage students of both American literature and labor history. 'Steinbeck's journalism shares the enduring quality of his famous novel. 'Steinbeck's potent blend of empathy and moral outrage was perfectly matched by the photographs of Dorothea Lange, who had caught the whole saga with her camera - the tents, the jalopies, the bindlestiffs, the pathos and courage of uprooted mothers and children.' ( San Francisco Review of Books) Lubin Society published The Harvest Gypsies, with an added eighth chapter, in pamphlet form under the title, Their Blood is Strong. The Harvest Gypsies gives us an eyewitness account of the horrendous Dust Bowl migration, and provides the factual foundation for Steinbeck's masterpiece. The Harvest Gypsies by John Steinbeck was originally published in seven parts in the San Francisco News, from October 5 to October 12, 1936. With the inquisitiveness of an investigative reporter and the emotional power of a novelist in his prime, Steinbeck toured the squatters' camps and Hoovervilles of rural California. Three years before his triumphant novel The Grapes of Wrath - a fictional portrayal of a Depression-era family fleeing Oklahoma during a disastrous period of drought and dust storms - John Steinbeck wrote seven articles for the San Francisco News about these history-making events and the hundreds of thousands who made their way west to work as farm laborers. A collection of newspaper articles about Dust Bowl migrants in California's Central Valley by the author of The Grapes of Wrath.

The harvest gypsies