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George Alexander Ehrlich
A banker in Boise City, Oklahoma who seized properties from farmers who foreclosed on bank loans they had taken out in the 1920s. To prevent Johnson from selling off their farms and farming equipment, the farmers all agreed to show up at the auctions and bet only ten cents on seized property so that they could easily buy back what they had lost.
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John Johnson Character Timeline in The Worst Hard Time
The timeline below shows where the character John Johnson appears in The Worst Hard Time. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 2: No Man's Land
John Johnson ’s bank loaned money to people all over the county. People were happy to mortgage...
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Chapter 5: Last of the Great Plowup
...Hazel accepted it. Then, when she took it to the bank, she was turned away. John Johnson ’s bank would not cash the warrants. Hazel worked the school year without pay.
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Chapter 7: A Darkening
John Johnson ’s bank held weekly foreclosure auctions. He knew about the conspiracy of low bidding among...
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Chapter 12: The Long Darkness
...that robbed the people. But they were also murderers. Still, Sheriff Barrick hated working at John Johnson ’s foreclosure auctions.
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