Educational video of the Dust Bowl of the 1920’s. Super to use in American History classes, but I use it with the Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men. Photos are either freeware or from the Finney County Historical Museum in Kansas. … Dust Bowl Educational History Literature Grapes of Wrath Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck Kansas Garden City California 66

Route 66 first entered the general public conscience in 1939 when California writer John Steinbeck published his novel “The Grapes of Wrath”, detailing the westward migration of Oklahoma’s Dust Bowl farmers to California’s San Joaquin Valley. During the story, he refers to Route 66 as the “Mother Road”, a nickname it still has today. When Steinbeck won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel, the road became even more famous.