Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie Refugees With a poet's devotion to

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Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie Refugees With a poet's devotion toby Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz University of Oklahoma Press 2006, paperback SKU: 9780806137759 A classic in contemporary Oklahoma literature, Roxanne Dunbar Ortizs Red Dirt unearths the joys and ordeals of growing up poor during the 1940s and 1950s. In this exquisite rendering of her childhood in rural Oklahoma, from the Dust Bowl days to the end of the Eisenhower era, the author bears witness to a family and community that still cling to the dream of