“The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but
the hard things that belong to adversity are to be admired.”
~Seneca
In an excerpt from The American Experience, historians recall that when the drought and dust storms showed no signs of letting up, many people abandoned their land. Others would have stayed but were forced out when they lost their land in bank foreclosures. In all, one-quarter of the population left, packing everything they owned into their cars and trucks, and headed west toward California. Although overall three out of four farmers stayed on their land, the mass exodus depleted the population drastically in certain areas.
The Dust Bowl exodus was the largest migration in American history.
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