John McCarty, an editor of the Dalhart Texan, formed the Last Man Club in Dalhart, Texas as a mutual support group for those farmers that chose to stay in the drought-swept Great Plains or, as he called it, ``Grab a Root and Growl. Declaring that the plains were ``the best damned country God's sun ever shown upon,'' McCarty published a pledge in the newspaper he worked for, stating that he would stay until everyone else was gone, and he dared others to join him.
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