In 1973 I worked at Jess Ranch, a trout and turkey ranch in Apple Valley, CA. My co-workers were a melange of casual laborers, skilled ranch hands, recent immigrants, and out of luck drifters. (Like myself). All of us were hard, earnest workers, for ranch work is always demanding. Working outdoors in every season, through snowstorms and sandstorms, we put in ten hour days, six days a week, for four hundred dollars a month. I remember the land, the weather, but mostly the people, ignored by society then and forgotten since. People like these feed the world and should not be forgotten.
