Understanding Of Mice and Men, The Red Pony and The Pearl: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents Book

"The Triumph of Our Species": A Literary Analysis of Three Steinbeck Novels

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Old California and the West

From Hector St. John de Crevecoeur's Sketches of Eighteenth-Century America

From John Todd's The Sunset Land Or, The Great Pacific Slope

From Washington Irving's Captain Bonneville

From John Bidwell's "The First Emigrant Train to California"

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Land Ownership

From Thomas Paine's Agrarian Justice

From Hector St. John de Crevecoeur's Letters From An American Farmer

From Josiah Royce's California. A Study of American Character

From The Homestead Act of 1862 The Statutes At Large, Treaties, and Proclamations of the United States of America

From Henry George, Jr.'s "The Lands of the United States," in The Life of Henry George

From "The Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act" in Statutes At Large, Treaties and Proclamations of the United States of America

From Carey McWilliams' Ill Fares the Land

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The Vagrant Farm Worker: Homeless in Paradise

From James P. Beckwourth's The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth. Written from his own Dictation, by T. D. Bonner

From Franklin Langworthy's Scenery of the Plains, Mountains and Mines: Or A Diary Kept upon the Overland Route to California, by Way of the Great Salt Lake...In the Years 1850, '51, '52 and '53

From John S. Hittell's The Resources of California

From Josiah Royce's California...A Study of American Character

From Mark Twain's "California: Character of thePopulation" Roughing It

From Migratory Labor in American Agriculture: Report of the President's Commission on Migratory Labor

From the Journal of a Working Man in John N. Webb's The Migratory-Casual Worker

From Nels Anderson's The Hobo. The Sociology of the Homeless Man

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Losers of the American Dream

From Alice Willard Solenberger's One Thousand Homeless Men

From Nels Anderson's The Hobo

From Carey McWilliams' Ill Fares the Land

From William T. and Dorothy E. Cross' Newcomers and Nomads in California

An Interview with Brigadier Luther Smith of Birmingham, Alabama

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The American Dream in a Mexican Setting

From James H. Wilkins' A Glimpse of Old Mexico

From Elizabeth Visere McGary's An American Girl in Mexico

From William Seymour Edwards' On the Mexican Highlands

From A. A. Graham's Mexico With Comparisons and Conclusions

From Mrs. Alec Tweedie's Mexico As I Saw It

From H. Hamilton Fyfe's The Real Mexico

From Edward Alsworth Ross' The Social Revolution in Mexico

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