Latest novel: 'Till Them Eagles GrinA story of the Great Depression
The years between the stock market crash of 1929 and the end
of World War II in 1945 were the years of the Great Depression. Nearly 13
million people, about 25 percent of the work force was unemployed. Many became
homeless and took refuge in makeshift shanty communities called Hoovervilles.
The decade between 1930 and 1940 saw severe droughts, floods, and high
temperatures. The resulting Dust Bowl sent migrates west to California. Young
people took to hoboing, riding the rails and living in hobo jungles. The
administration of President Franklin Roosevelt took action with many social
programs, but recovery was slow. This is the story of a few of those people,
their good times and bad. It is a story of a young man’s brush with organized
crime, another’s life jumping freights and picking fruit, an aspiring blues
musician encountering racism both in the north and the south, and two young
women who will find and then lose love. It tells the story of the eagles on the
silver dollar who will someday grin―but the cost will be great.
The years between the stock market crash of 1929 and the end
of World War II in 1945 were the years of the Great Depression. Nearly 13
million people, about 25 percent of the work force was unemployed. Many became
homeless and took refuge in makeshift shanty communities called Hoovervilles.
The decade between 1930 and 1940 saw severe droughts, floods, and high
temperatures. The resulting Dust Bowl sent migrates west to California. Young
people took to hoboing, riding the rails and living in hobo jungles. The
administration of President Franklin Roosevelt took action with many social
programs, but recovery was slow. This is the story of a few of those people,
their good times and bad. It is a story of a young man’s brush with organized
crime, another’s life jumping freights and picking fruit, an aspiring blues
musician encountering racism both in the north and the south, and two young
women who will find and then lose love. It tells the story of the eagles on the
silver dollar who will someday grin―but the cost will be great.
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