@book{0514ad367a6c4e7bb4efc221e711fc0c,
title = "From Dust They Came: Government Camps and the Religion of Reform in New Deal California",
abstract = "From Dust They Came tells the religious history of the federal government{\textquoteright}s Depression-era effort to shelter, clean, convert, and redeem Dust Bowl refugees in agricultural California. Using the extensive archives of the federal migratory camp system, the volume explores the religious dynamics in and around the migratory farm labor camps established and operated by the Resettlement Administration and the Farm Security Administration. Jonathan H. Ebel makes the case that the camps served as mission sites for the conversion of migrants to more modern ways of living and believing.",
keywords = "New Deal, California, Agriculture, Migrants, Dust Bowl",
author = "Ebel, {Jonathan H}",
year = "2023",
month = oct,
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9781479823635",
series = "North American Religions",
publisher = "New York University Press",
}