The Bonus Army

by Paul Dickson

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  36. Sheila Graves, “Reflecting on Desperate Times,”Wenatachee World, February 20, 1992.

  37. Roger Wilkins, A Man’s Life (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1982), 177.

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  = Eyewitness accounts of expulsion

  = Eyewitness accounts of trek to Washington and camp life

  = Unpublished academic thesis

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