My mother
and her family just missed the Dust Bowl. They were Kaw City Oklahoma citizens, and actually doing rather well, when the state decided to relocate the city to make room for a dam. They all packed up..grandparents, Aunts, Uncles, Cousins, to the "Land of Milk and Honey". Upstate NY. 1928
Okies were less than zero in those days if they chose to relocate to California to become migrant workers.