Her name was Florence, she was just 32 years old and had come from Oklahoma to California some dozen years before, to a land of promise -- a promise which, for her, had not been kept.

Hi my name is Roger Sprague, I'm the grandson of Florence (Owens) Thompson otherwise known as the Migrant Mother. It  is my intent to use this website as a link to help people gain information on and about my Grandmother, Florence (Owens)Thompson, the person in the Dorthea Lange photograph "Migrant Mother". To help people to research on and about her, her children, and the people of the Great Depression Era.

I will also be offering my book, Second Trail of Tears, directly to the public as it becomes available.

With these pages, I would like to make myself available to those who are researching history, so that I might answer any questions that they may have.

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