Patterson Family
Cotton Was King on the Llano Estacado



Everyone Focused on Cotton First Money - Chopping Weeds
Cotton Read For Picking Workers Arriving From Mexico
Break Out the Knee Pads Whole Family Goes to the Field
Local Picker Woman with Lunch
Picker in field Weighing and Dumping Cotton
in Wagon
Kids Did Their Bit Woung Girl With Full Sack
Woman at Wagon Little Girl with Little Sack
Small Children Were Brought
to the Field
Family Heading For The Wagon
Hauling Cotton to Gin Gin First Bale
Compressing Cotton into a Bale Loading Bales
Chapter 1 My Way of Thinking
Chapter 2 My Father and Mother Became Sharecroppers
Chapter 3 Conception to Awareness
Chapter 4 Now I Know That I Rember -- I Think
Chapter 5 Things That We Did on The Farm
Chapter 6 Life on Jackson's Place
Chapter 7 My Education Begins
Chapter 8 Life on the Farm

Chapter 9 Move to the Metropolis of Lubbock, Texas
Chapter 10 Marines

Chapter 11 College and New Orleans

Chapter 12 Indonesia Bahrain Scotland Lafayette