| From the American Dust Bowl, thousands of destitute farm families stream westward. |
| The accents are Oklahoman and Texan, and they come not just from expatriates of the Dust Bowl states but also from their California-born children and grandchildren. |
| During the Dust Bowl period, millions of people were forced to abandon their farms and livelihoods. |
| Small wonder that farmers in Bolivia recently, and in Alberta during the Dust Bowl, both preferred the cooperative approach. |
| And there wasn't a dry eye in the House when Fonda told of how her father led his family out of the Dust Bowl of Oklahoma during the Great Depression. |
| My parents were born in the midst of the Dust Bowl, so I heard those stories my whole life. |
