Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center imprint series

Presents a photographic chronicle of internationally acclaimed photographer Richard Avedon's creation of the 1985 exhibition and book "In the American West," a collection of portraits of oil field workers, miners, waitresses, teenagers, and other often ignored westerners.

Presents a firsthand account of the Dust Bowl refugees, migrant labor camps, and labor activism among Anglo and Mexican farm workers in California through a collection of personal writings and photographs.