Though Rush's family left after the Dust Bowl years were officially over, they took the same path — traveling Route 66, which the migrants called "the Mother Road," until they reached California.

Steinbeck mined her research for “The Grapes of Wrath.” Then her own Dust Bowl novel was squashed Migrant camp worker Sanora Babb wrote what could have been the era's definitive book. Instead ...

The Dust Bowl Festival at the historic Weedpatch Camp, immortalized by John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath," ended this year after three decades. The Okie generation is fading in California, but ...

The World Bank predicts climate change may displace 143 million people by 2050. Environmental shifts have caused migration on smaller scales throughout the history of North America, historians say.

The Dust Bowl led to a massive migration of Midwestern farmers out of the region, many of whom traveled to California in search of jobs.

Residents leaving the Dust Bowl counties rose from 38 percent of the population between 1920 and 1930 to 46 percent between 1930 and 1940. Going to California A widely held perception—made popular, in ...

Dorothea Lange and her husband were the first to document Dust Bowl migrants. Photographer Dorothea Lange and her husband were the first to witness and to understand the causes of the huge ...

Ron Hughart, author of two award-winning books about the Central Valley after the Dust Bowl years, will speak at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Visalia Library. The event is in honor of the 75th ...

Dorothea Lange and her husband Paul Taylor chronicled Dust Bowl migrants in California more the 70 years ago.Lange did it in photographs — women keeping house in ragged tents, men at the wheel ...

Treated like a dirty dog. This is what the migrants sang in the 1930s, when the Golden State was anything but welcoming to the “tired and poor” masses heading this way from Dust Bowl-ravaged ...