Children of the dust bowl

Children of the Dust Bowl, The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp, by Jerry Stanley, illustrated with actual photographs from the era, is the story of the migration of Okies from the Oklahoma Panhandle to the land of promises in California. The wicked weather and winds that cursed the Oklahoma Panhandle became unbearable in the late 1930s. From 1931 through 1936, it had rained only a handful of times.