TGIBBF for May 13 - America's Dust Bowl Diaspora

Thanks to Lisa Ricard Claro for her bringing us Book Blurb Friday through her blog, Writing in the Buff and to Lynn Obermoeller for the photo.

America’s Dust Bowl Diaspora

On the heels of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, the American and Canadian prairies suffered a drought of Biblical proportions followed by dust storms that decimated their fields. These two events became known as the Dust Bowl. In response to this life-changing natural event, many people migrated to California to escape the combined damages of financial and natural ruin. 

Join us as we retrace this modern-day diaspora and learn the histories of several families who pulled up stakes and made new lives on the west coast of the United States during the worst period of economic decline in the world.