But one of the exceptions to that was the migration out of the southern plains area that was called the Dust Bowl Migration: 300,000 or 400,000 people from Oklahoma and surrounding states moving ...

The Dust Bowl exodus was the largest migration in American history. By 1940, 2.5 million people had moved out of the Plains states; of those, 200,000 moved to California. When they reached the ...

Both were in town to chronicle the plight of migrants who were flooding the state to escape the decimation of the Dust Bowl. Both were writing fiction about it—Steinbeck had abandoned two novels ...

Ninety years ago, the worst dust storm in American history blasted the Great Plains. The Dust Bowl had arrived.