tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1875980412212682099.post2481292883263498688..comments2024-03-19T19:34:23.525-07:00Comments on Comparative Video 101: Another Woody Guthrie Classic: "Pastures Of Plenty/Pretty Polly"Jim Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14198555155411979643noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1875980412212682099.post-29380230018807395782014-02-28T16:17:20.964-08:002014-02-28T16:17:20.964-08:00Right, Pete - I meant to change that when you poin...Right, Pete - I meant to change that when you pointed that out before. My intent was to suggest that the size of the migration, considerable though it was, had been exaggerated somewhat by popular media. My source for the lower figure (about 90-120,000) was suspect and may have been citing an under-reporting from 1940. This was from a paper I wrote in an American lit class about 1970, so I may have some trouble locating the exact source today. I am comfortable with the integrity of your figures and will rewrite that nit. Thanks! Jim Jim Moranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14198555155411979643noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1875980412212682099.post-16420795113997840182014-02-28T13:58:42.038-08:002014-02-28T13:58:42.038-08:00Jim: Not sure where you got the “tens of thousands...Jim: Not sure where you got the “tens of thousands” number (a source would be helpful). But in his book, “Dust Bowl Migrants in the American Imagination,” Charles J. Shindo says, "Only about one-third of the over one million migrants to California during the 1930s could be considered 'dust bowl migrants.’” That would peg the number of Dust Bowl migrants to California at approximately 333,000. So if Steinbeck used a figure of "hundreds of thousands" in his book (which I didn‘t find), it appears such a number would be correct. Ed Cray gives a similar number in his recent biography of Guthrie. Ditto the PBS special on the subject. Regards, Pete Curry<br /><br />http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/dustbowl-mass-exodus-plains/Pete Curryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08045255520784494460noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1875980412212682099.post-12103067195513316322012-11-30T10:23:41.143-08:002012-11-30T10:23:41.143-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Pete Curryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08045255520784494460noreply@blogger.com