“In time,” I said, directing him to one of the trucks. “Let’s get you to camp first, and then I’ll hear your story.”

He was another who’d have one. I was sure of that. They all would.

He just didn’t know how his story was about to change.

“Hey,” I called after him.

He turned back.

“Glad to have you here,” I said. “We’ve got us a job to do.”

Selected References and Suggestions for Further Reading

CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS

Books

Cohen, Stan. The Tree Army: A Pictorial History of the Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933–1942. Missoula, MT: Pictorial Histories Publishing Company, 1980, rev. 1993.

Ermentrout, Robert Allen. Forgotten Men: The Civilian Conservation Corps. Smithtown, NY: Exposition Press, 1982.

Holland, Kenneth, and Frank Ernest Hill. Youth in the CCC. Washington, DC: American Council on Education, 1942.

Lacy, Leslie Alexander. The Soil Soldiers: The Civilian Conservation Corps in the Great Depression. Radnor, PA: Chilton Book Company, 1976.

Merrill, Perry H. Roosevelt’s Forest Army: A History of the Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933–1942. Montpelier, VT: P. H. Merrill, 1981.

Paige, John C. The Civilian Conservation Corps and the National Park Service, 1933–1942: An Administrative History. N.p.: National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, 1985.

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THE DEPRESSION: MONTANA AND RURAL LIFE IN THE 1930S

Books

Agee, James, and Walker Evans. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1941.

Evans, Walker. Walker Evans: Photographs for the Farm Security Administration, 1935–1938: A Catalog of Photographic Prints Available from the Farm Security Administration Collection in the Library of Congress. New York: Da Capo Press, 1973.

Federal Writers’ Project of the Work Projects Administration for the State of Montana. The WPA Guide to 1930s Montana. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1994. First published as Montana: A State Guide Book, 1939 by the Department of Agriculture, Labor and Industry, State of Montana.

Heyman, Therese Thau, Sandra S. Phillips, John Szarkowski, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Dorothea Lange: American Photographs. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1994.

Horan, James D. The Desperate Years: A Pictorial History of the Thirties. New York: Bonanza Books, 1962.

Hull, William H. The Dirty Thirties: Tales of the Nineteen Thirties During Which Occurred a Great Drought, a Lengthy Depression and the Era Commonly Called The Dust Bowl Years. Edina, MN: William H. Hull, 1989.

Low, Ann Marie. Dust Bowl Diary. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1984.

Merrill, Andrea, and Judy Jacobson. Montana Almanac. Helena, MT: Falcon, 1997.

Murphy, Mary. Hope in Hard Times: New Deal Photographs of Montana, 1936–1942. Helena, MT: Montana Historical Society Press, 2003.

Reid, Robert L., ed. Back Home Again: Indiana in the Farm Security Administration Photographs, 1935–1943. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1987.

Rothstein, Arthur. The Depression Years as Photographed by Arthur Rothstein. New York: Dover Publications, 1978.

Spritzer, Don. Roadside History of Montana. Missoula, MT: Mountain Press, 1999.

Toole, K. Ross. Twentieth-Century Montana: A State of Extremes. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1972.

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