Pie Town Homesteaders

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Homesteaders in Pie Town, New Mexico

Check out these historic photos of homesteaders in 1930s Pie Town, New Mexico. The photos were taken by Russell Lee during the Great Depression for the Farm Security Administration. (Photos courtesy of the Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/pictures)

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Faro and Doris Caudill, homesteaders, Pie Town, New Mexico Bill Stagg turning up pinto beans, Pie Town, New Mexico Bill Stagg turning up his beans, Pie Town, New Mexico. He will next pile them for curing Faro Caudill drawing water from his well, Pie Town, New Mexico Bill Stagg, homesteader, in front of his barn, Pie Town, New Mexico

Church, Pie Town, New Mexico Crowd eating free barbeque dinner at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair Fruit wagon at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair Harvesting corn, Pie Town, New Mexico Harvesting new corn from the field of Jim Norris, Pie Town, New Mexico

Home of Jim Norris, homesteader, Pie Town, New Mexico Jack Whinery, homesteader, and his family, Pie Town, New Mexico Jim Norris and wife, homesteaders, Pie Town, New Mexico Jim Norris, homesteader, cutting a head of cabbage, Pie Town, New Mexico Les Thomas, homesteader, Pie Town, New Mexico

Mr. Leatherman, homesteader, shooting hawks which have been carrying away his chickens, Pie Town, New Mexico Mr. Leatherman, homesteader, tying up cauliflower, Pie Town, New Mexico Mrs. Bill Stagg with state quilt which she made, Pie Town, New Mexico Mrs. Jim Norris with homegrown cabbage, one of the many vegetables which the homesteaders grow in abundance, Pie Town, New Mexico Mrs. Norris with homegrown cabbage, one of the many vegetables which the homesteaders grow in abundance, Pie Town, New Mexico

School at Pie Town, New Mexico is held at the Farm Bureau Building The Faro Caudill family eating dinner in their dugout, Pie Town, New Mexico Wife of Jim Norris with canned goods, Pie Town, New Mexico