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"I Should Have Been a Mule": Cotton Pickin' Blues in Southwestern Oklahoma (open access)

"I Should Have Been a Mule": Cotton Pickin' Blues in Southwestern Oklahoma

Article describes the development of the cotton industry in Oklahoma's Jackson County, from its success to its decline. Leo Kelley takes a closer look at the attitudes and lives of cotton farmers in Oklahoma through excerpts from newspapers and personal journals.
Date: Summer 1998
Creator: Kelley, Leo
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History