Today, the word “Okie” refers to someone who lives or ... it was used by native Californians as a slur for those who traveled from the Dust Bowl-stricken areas of the country to look for ...

In all, one-quarter of the population left, packing everything they owned into their cars and trucks ... their families pulling up stakes. The Dust Bowl exodus was the largest migration in ...

He’s seen it all before. Back in the Dust Bowl days he watched in awe as dark clouds of topsoil swallowed up the family ranch. That was in the mid-1930s, when Bill Tullos was just a boy.

With cars rapidly gaining popularity in the early ... the fictional Joad family's trip along the highway from Dust Bowl Oklahoma to the fruit fields of California. In the economic boom following ...

Miners in the gold rush years, Okies in the dust bowl years, soldiers in the war years ... In the 2006 film Cars, hot-shot race car Lightning McQueen finds himself lost on the backroads on ...

It wasn't that long ago that the notion of reaching 200 miles per hour in a car, on a road, seemed basically impossible. As you likely know by now, that time has passed. And once that threshold ...

The Owensboro Dust Bowl basketball tournament board doesn’t see hoops and politics being a good combination for a community event. The Daviess County Republicans had planned to set up an informational ...

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In all, one-quarter of the population left, packing everything they owned into their cars and trucks ... their families pulling up stakes. The Dust Bowl exodus was the largest migration in ...

Thousands of families simply abandoned their farms altogether. In 1929, an unprecedented decade of drought, known as the Dust Bowl, hits parts of the Canadian prairies. (National Archives of ...