This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Dust Bowl Okies return to greener Oklahoma after mass migration
Sacramento report recalls 1930s Dust Bowl refugees who headed to California. Many carried leaflets promising cotton and fruit work, faced discrimination, and toiled in fields before wartime shifts drew them to shipyards and defense plants. Now many return home to Oklahoma to repair homesteads and retire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
John Steinbeck
Steinbeck
Sallisaw
Okla
Okemah
Okmulgee
Tom
Oklahoma
Karl A. Cozad
Marysville