That meant farmers couldn't pay back the money banks had loaned them.
To make sure a farmer moved away from his farm, a bank sometimes sent a tractor to push over the farmer's house
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Thousands of families packed up everything their cars or trucks could hold or everything they had left.
So many were from dust-scoured Oklahoma that "Okies" became a kind of nickname,
whether they were from Oklahoma, Colorado or New Mexico.