Migrant stories have two parts: the leaving of an old life, and the building of a new one. Pat Rush's "old life" started in Arkansas. She was born in 1935 and her family worked as laborers picking ...

Steinbeck mined her research for "The Grapes of Wrath." Then her own Dust Bowl novel was squashed Migrant camp worker Sanora Babb wrote what could have been the era's definitive book.

During the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, ... And today there are a lot of Mexican migrant workers in her area who do field work just like she used to do.