I really take great joy in telling the writer of this story that the Okies were not the first to lose their farms and have to hit the road. My parents and older siblings lost their farm in late 1929 when commodity prices tanked and the trailer load of cotton they hand picked rotted in the gin yard along with the rest of the farmers.
This happened not in Oklahoma but near Kerman Ca in western FResno County. By the time I came along in 1933 they had acquired a larger farm by agreeing to pay future tax assessments to the water district that had foreclosed on dozens of farms.
Some of the richest farmers in the valley are Steinbecks Okies.