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Central California Colony: 'Marvel of the Desert'
Our Voices. Our Stories. Our History: Oral History

I sometimes picture my farm as a battlefield with troops of people struggling with nature in a hundred-year war.

Germans, Italians, Chinese and Japanese, Armenians, Filipinos, and Mexicans---their voices have sounded over this farm, their families have walked these rows . . .

~ David Mas Masumoto, Epitaph for a Peach

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Central California Colony: 'Marvel of the Desert'
by John Panter
Reprint from Fresno Past & Present, The Journal of the Fresno City and County Historical Society, Volume 36, Number 2, Summer, 1994.

Our Voices. Our Stories. Our History: Oral History
Edited reprint from Grapevine, Newsletter of Fresno City and County Historical Society, Volume 24, Number 3, Aug/Sept/Oct 2001.

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