Word: elton
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Little Oklahoma. Watching the coming of the Okies as closely as Novelist Steinbeck was a Salinas grower named Elton Hebbron, a middleaged, easygoing man who owned about 120 rolling acres east of Salinas that could not be profitably farmed. He cut it up into small lots, sold it to migrants for $300 to $400 a lot on easy terms, made money. By 1935 the plot was a swarming, crowded, unsightly assemblage of trailers, tents, rusting jalopies, shacks, like innumerable other Little Oklahomas beside farm towns...