Migrant from Oklahoma

Former Osage County, Oklahoma deputy sheriff in front of shack, for which he paid $7.00/month: 'I was raised in a time when every man hepped himself and the lord hepped him. Now I haven't made $5.00 since [1939 11 16]. I've raised and matched 6 children back there in Osage County, I had a right smart place, but the land grabbers got me. It's like a man buying a mule, they choose only the best of them. Worlds of them are left out. When I went to farming in 1914 some of them land grabbers was farming with a plow in those days like I was. But a small man can't take the dry weather, the bugs, and all the rest that comes and make it. I stayed together as long as I could. A human being is a funny thing when he knows he's gyped he wants to take a chance somewhere else. I reckon the [Agricultural Adjustment Administration] gyped me out of my share and put me on the road.' See also number 0 489.