From Indian Territory to White Man's Country: Race, Nation, and the Politics of Land Ownership in Eastern Oklahoma, 1889-1940University of Wisconsin--Madison, 2002 - 351 pages |
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Page 177
... farmers who had achieved landowning prosperity through self - help . In 1917 , agent B. F. Brown reported that the farmers around Boley had much to leam from Sam Callahan , who had used diversified farming and careful savings to build ...
... farmers who had achieved landowning prosperity through self - help . In 1917 , agent B. F. Brown reported that the farmers around Boley had much to leam from Sam Callahan , who had used diversified farming and careful savings to build ...
Page 255
... farmers of all races went from bad to worse . In 1920 , 51 percent of white farmers statewide had rented their land in cash or in crops . By 1930 , the figure had climbed to 61 percent . In castem Oklahoma , where tenancy had been ...
... farmers of all races went from bad to worse . In 1920 , 51 percent of white farmers statewide had rented their land in cash or in crops . By 1930 , the figure had climbed to 61 percent . In castem Oklahoma , where tenancy had been ...
Page 257
... farmers in 1930 than there had been in 1920 , with just over half of the new farmers being while . Tenant farms accounted for eighty percent of the increase in the number of non - white farms in the 1920s . For white farmers in the four ...
... farmers in 1930 than there had been in 1920 , with just over half of the new farmers being while . Tenant farms accounted for eighty percent of the increase in the number of non - white farms in the 1920s . For white farmers in the four ...
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