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After surviving dust bowl crop failures, dirt infiltrating everything their despair turned to hope offered by better conditions in California.
Dust bowl states of Kansas, Oklahoma and other plains states were going through a prolonged drought. Stories of ample moisture good crop production in California brought optimism of Biblical proportions. Like Israelites stranded in desert after escaping Egypt, waiting for return to Caanan the Promised Land of milk and honey.
