Mickey’s Harvest was written by Howard L. Terry between 1917 and 1922 which he donated to the Gallaudet University Archives in 1951. There it rested until a resurgence of interest in Deaf literature led to its recent rediscovery. Mickey Dunmore’s story begins with the sinking of his father’s merchant sailing ship and ends with a cliffhanger in World War I. In school after an illness caused his deafness Mickey finds himself constantly fighting the hearing boys and later competing with the signing students when he attends a residential school for deaf students. In college he and his best friend Dick Wagner leave early to travel the nation with the hobos carnies and grifters. In one town they outfox a barker who was using a deaf girl to “read” the minds of their marks. Further on they meet Bunny the Mighty Mite deaf man who helps expose a hearing woman posing as deaf to scam sympathetic people. Mickey faces his greatest challenge when he falls in love with Marion Carrel a deaf girl whose hearing father forbids their romance on eugenics grounds. Author Howard L. Terry who became deaf at the age of 11 states from the outset that he means for his novel to reveal the biases confronting deaf people at the time. As a tonic he populates Mickey’s Harvest with artistic talented deaf individuals who engage readers in an earlier colorful time as they “show their stuff.”