CLAUDIA DURST JOHNSON has recently retired as Professor of English at the University of Alabama, where she chaired the English Department for 12 years. She is the series editor of the Greenwood Press Literature in Context series, which includes her works Understanding Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1996), Understanding The Scarlet Letter (1995), and Understanding To Kill a Mockingbird (1994). She is also the author of To Kill a Mockingbird: Threatening Boundaries (1994), American Actress: Perspectives on the Nineteenth Century (1984), (with Vernon Johnson) Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century Theatre (Greenwood, 1982), The Productive Tension of Hawthorne's Art (1981), and (with Henry Jacobs) An Annotated Bibliography of Shakespearean Burlesques, Parodies, and Travesties (1976), as well as numerous articles on American literature and theatre.

• "The Triumph of Our Species": A Literary Analysis of Three Steinbeck Novels Questions for Written or Oral Exploration Suggestions for Further Reading Old California and the West From Hector St. John de Crevecoeur's Sketches of Eighteenth-Century America From John Todd's The Sunset Land Or, The Great Pacific Slope From Washington Irving's Captain Bonneville From John Bidwell's "The First Emigrant Train to California" Questions for Written or Oral Exploration Suggestions for Further Reading Land Ownership From Thomas Paine's Agrarian Justice From Hector St. John de Crevecoeur's Letters From An American Farmer From Josiah Royce's California. A Study of American Character From The Homestead Act of 1862 The Statutes At Large, Treaties, and Proclamations of the United States of America From Henry George, Jr.'s "The Lands of the United States," in The Life of Henry George From "The Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act" in Statutes At Large, Treaties and Proclamations of the United States of America From Carey McWilliams' Ill Fares the Land Questions for Written or Oral Exploration Suggestions for Further Reading The Vagrant Farm Worker: Homeless in Paradise From James P. Beckwourth's The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth. Written from his own Dictation, by T. D. Bonner From Franklin Langworthy's Scenery of the Plains, Mountains and Mines: Or A Diary Kept upon the Overland Route to California, by Way of the Great Salt Lake...In the Years 1850, '51, '52 and '53 From John S. Hittell's The Resources of California From Josiah Royce's California...A Study of American Character From Mark Twain's "California: Character of the Population" Roughing It From Migratory Labor in American Agriculture: Report of the President's Commission on Migratory Labor From the Journal of a Working Man in John N. Webb's The Migratory-Casual Worker From Nels Anderson's The Hobo. The Sociology of the Homeless Man Questions for Written or Oral Exploration Suggestions for Further Reading Losers of the American Dream From Alice Willard Solenberger's One Thousand Homeless Men From Nels Anderson's The Hobo From Carey McWilliams' Ill Fares the Land From William T. and Dorothy E. Cross' Newcomers and Nomads in California An Interview with Brigadier Luther Smith of Birmingham, Alabama Questions for Written or Oral Exploration Suggestions for Further Reading The American Dream in a Mexican Setting From James H. Wilkins' A Glimpse of Old Mexico From Elizabeth Visere McGary's An American Girl in Mexico From William Seymour Edwards' On the Mexican Highlands From A. A. Graham's Mexico With Comparisons and Conclusions From Mrs. Alec Tweedie's Mexico As I Saw It From H. Hamilton Fyfe's The Real Mexico From Edward Alsworth Ross' The Social Revolution in Mexico Questions for Written or Oral Exploration Suggestions for Further Reading

CLAUDIA DURST JOHNSON has recently retired as Professor of English at the University of Alabama, where she chaired the English Department for 12 years. She is the series editor of the Greenwood Press Literature in Context series, which includes her works Understanding Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1996), Understanding The Scarlet Letter (1995), and Understanding To Kill a Mockingbird (1994). She is also the author of To Kill a Mockingbird: Threatening Boundaries (1994), American Actress: Perspectives on the Nineteenth Century (1984), (with Vernon Johnson) Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century Theatre (Greenwood, 1982), The Productive Tension of Hawthorne's Art (1981), and (with Henry Jacobs) An Annotated Bibliography of Shakespearean Burlesques, Parodies, and Travesties (1976), as well as numerous articles on American literature and theatre.

• "The Triumph of Our Species": A Literary Analysis of Three Steinbeck Novels Questions for Written or Oral Exploration Suggestions for Further Reading Old California and the West From Hector St. John de Crevecoeur's Sketches of Eighteenth-Century America From John Todd's The Sunset Land Or, The Great Pacific Slope From Washington Irving's Captain Bonneville From John Bidwell's "The First Emigrant Train to California" Questions for Written or Oral Exploration Suggestions for Further Reading Land Ownership From Thomas Paine's Agrarian Justice From Hector St. John de Crevecoeur's Letters From An American Farmer From Josiah Royce's California. A Study of American Character From The Homestead Act of 1862 The Statutes At Large, Treaties, and Proclamations of the United States of America From Henry George, Jr.'s "The Lands of the United States," in The Life of Henry George From "The Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act" in Statutes At Large, Treaties and Proclamations of the United States of America From Carey McWilliams' Ill Fares the Land Questions for Written or Oral Exploration Suggestions for Further Reading The Vagrant Farm Worker: Homeless in Paradise From James P. Beckwourth's The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth. Written from his own Dictation, by T. D. Bonner From Franklin Langworthy's Scenery of the Plains, Mountains and Mines: Or A Diary Kept upon the Overland Route to California, by Way of the Great Salt Lake...In the Years 1850, '51, '52 and '53 From John S. Hittell's The Resources of California From Josiah Royce's California...A Study of American Character From Mark Twain's "California: Character of the Population" Roughing It From Migratory Labor in American Agriculture: Report of the President's Commission on Migratory Labor From the Journal of a Working Man in John N. Webb's The Migratory-Casual Worker From Nels Anderson's The Hobo. The Sociology of the Homeless Man Questions for Written or Oral Exploration Suggestions for Further Reading Losers of the American Dream From Alice Willard Solenberger's One Thousand Homeless Men From Nels Anderson's The Hobo From Carey McWilliams' Ill Fares the Land From William T. and Dorothy E. Cross' Newcomers and Nomads in California An Interview with Brigadier Luther Smith of Birmingham, Alabama Questions for Written or Oral Exploration Suggestions for Further Reading The American Dream in a Mexican Setting From James H. Wilkins' A Glimpse of Old Mexico From Elizabeth Visere McGary's An American Girl in Mexico From William Seymour Edwards' On the Mexican Highlands From A. A. Graham's Mexico With Comparisons and Conclusions From Mrs. Alec Tweedie's Mexico As I Saw It From H. Hamilton Fyfe's The Real Mexico From Edward Alsworth Ross' The Social Revolution in Mexico Questions for Written or Oral Exploration Suggestions for Further Reading

CLAUDIA DURST JOHNSON has recently retired as Professor of English at the University of Alabama, where she chaired the English Department for 12 years. She is the series editor of the Greenwood Press Literature in Context series, which includes her works Understanding Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1996), Understanding The Scarlet Letter (1995), and Understanding To Kill a Mockingbird (1994). She is also the author of To Kill a Mockingbird: Threatening Boundaries (1994), American Actress: Perspectives on the Nineteenth Century (1984), (with Vernon Johnson) Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century Theatre (Greenwood, 1982), The Productive Tension of Hawthorne's Art (1981), and (with Henry Jacobs) An Annotated Bibliography of Shakespearean Burlesques, Parodies, and Travesties (1976), as well as numerous articles on American literature and theatre.

• "The Triumph of Our Species": A Literary Analysis of Three Steinbeck Novels Questions for Written or Oral Exploration Suggestions for Further Reading Old California and the West From Hector St. John de Crevecoeur's Sketches of Eighteenth-Century America From John Todd's The Sunset Land Or, The Great Pacific Slope From Washington Irving's Captain Bonneville From John Bidwell's "The First Emigrant Train to California" Questions for Written or Oral Exploration Suggestions for Further Reading Land Ownership From Thomas Paine's Agrarian Justice From Hector St. John de Crevecoeur's Letters From An American Farmer From Josiah Royce's California. A Study of American Character From The Homestead Act of 1862 The Statutes At Large, Treaties, and Proclamations of the United States of America From Henry George, Jr.'s "The Lands of the United States," in The Life of Henry George From "The Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act" in Statutes At Large, Treaties and Proclamations of the United States of America From Carey McWilliams' Ill Fares the Land Questions for Written or Oral Exploration Suggestions for Further Reading The Vagrant Farm Worker: Homeless in Paradise From James P. Beckwourth's The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth. Written from his own Dictation, by T. D. Bonner From Franklin Langworthy's Scenery of the Plains, Mountains and Mines: Or A Diary Kept upon the Overland Route to California, by Way of the Great Salt Lake...In the Years 1850, '51, '52 and '53 From John S. Hittell's The Resources of California From Josiah Royce's California...A Study of American Character From Mark Twain's "California: Character of the Population" Roughing It From Migratory Labor in American Agriculture: Report of the President's Commission on Migratory Labor From the Journal of a Working Man in John N. Webb's The Migratory-Casual Worker From Nels Anderson's The Hobo. The Sociology of the Homeless Man Questions for Written or Oral Exploration Suggestions for Further Reading Losers of the American Dream From Alice Willard Solenberger's One Thousand Homeless Men From Nels Anderson's The Hobo From Carey McWilliams' Ill Fares the Land From William T. and Dorothy E. Cross' Newcomers and Nomads in California An Interview with Brigadier Luther Smith of Birmingham, Alabama Questions for Written or Oral Exploration Suggestions for Further Reading The American Dream in a Mexican Setting From James H. Wilkins' A Glimpse of Old Mexico From Elizabeth Visere McGary's An American Girl in Mexico From William Seymour Edwards' On the Mexican Highlands From A. A. Graham's Mexico With Comparisons and Conclusions From Mrs. Alec Tweedie's Mexico As I Saw It From H. Hamilton Fyfe's The Real Mexico From Edward Alsworth Ross' The Social Revolution in Mexico Questions for Written or Oral Exploration Suggestions for Further Reading