“Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his hoe and gazes at the ground, The emptiness of ages in his face, And on” his back the burden of the world.” Those four lines are from Edwin Markham’s famous poem

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UNCLE SAM’S BACKBONE - When Edwin Markham walked from his Lagoon Valley home to the schools in Vacaville before the turn of the century, he saw first-hand the toiling farmers in the area, which no doubt inspired him in

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http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt467nc7c6 No online items Guide to the Edwin Markham Collection SJSU Library Special Collections and Archives Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library

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• San Jose
• California
• Edwin Markham
• California
• American literature

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• Stockton
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• Geography of California
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• Vacaville
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• Solano County
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• Angelo Rodriguez High School
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