00838cam a2200181 4500 60615438 TxAuBib 20000922120000.0 ||||||s1970||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u TxAuBib Yurchenko, Henrietta. A Mighty Hard Road : The Woody Gutherie Story. New York, N.Y : McGraw-Hill, 1970. 158. The composer of This Land is Your Land was the authentic voice of America in the first half of the twentieth century. Born in a Oklahoma oil town, Woody Gutherie knew the hardships of a society awaking from it's dream of unlimited land and riches to the brutal reality of Dust Bowl and Depression. 20000922. Biography/ Music/ Voice of America.