The week has been spent planning an auto tour across route 66 to Chicago. The trip across the dust bowl region may take two chapters. Time will tell. The plowing up the grasslands of the plains started an ecological tragedy brought on by railroads and pamphleteers who lied. The offer of free train rides to paradise for farmers brought them out of the cities. Often the made money the first year. Never again.

“The Grapes of Wrath” by John Steinbeck and “The Worst Hard Time” by Timothy Egan takes up most my reading time. History never bores me. Learning how supply and demand caused this disaster amazes me. Immigrants in the East needed land of their own. The great high plains was hawked as the place for a farmer to be! They came by the thousands. After a generation Mother Nature brought a ten year drought. Then the winds came.