IN THE BOXCAR CAMP the water stood in puddles, and the rain splashed i...
OVER THE HIGH COAST MOUNTAIN and over the valleys the gray clouds marc...
THE BOXCARS, twelve of them, stood end to end on a little flat beside ...
COTTON PICKERS WANTED-placards on the road, handbills out, orange-colo...
IN THE WEEDPATCH CAMP, on an evening when the long, barred clouds hung...
THE SPRING IS BEAUTIFUL in California. Valleys in which the fruit blos...
ON SATURDAY MORNING the wash tubs were crowded. The women washed dress...
THE MIGRANT PEOPLE, scuttling for work, scrabbling to live, looked alw...
IT WAS LATE when Tom Joad drove along a country road looking for the W...
THE MOVING, questing people were migrants now. Those families which ha...
THE FAMILY, on top of the load, the children and Connie and Rose of Sh...
ONCE CALIFORNIA belonged to Mexico and its land to Mexicans; and a hor...
THE JOAD FAMILY moved slowly westward, up into the mountains of New Me...
THE CARS of the migrant people crawled out of the side roads onto the ...
JOADS AND WILSONS crawled westward as a unit: El Reno and Bridgeport, ...
A LONG 66 the hamburger stands-Al & Susy's Place-Carl's Lunch-Joe & Mi...
THE WESTERN LAND, nervous under the beginning change. The Western Stat...
THE ANCIENT overloaded Hudson creaked and grunted to the highway at Sa...
HIGHWAY 661 is the main migrant road. 66-the long concrete path across...
THE HOUSES were left vacant on the land, and the land was vacant becau...
WHEN THE TRUCK HAD GONE, loaded with implements, with heavy tools, wit...
IN THE LITTLE HOUSES the tenant people sifted their belongings and the...
THE SKY GRAYED among the stars, and the pale, late quarter-moon was in...
IN THE TOWNS, on the edges of the towns, in fields, in vacant lots, th...
THE REVEREND CASY and young Tom stood on the hill and looked down on t...
THE OWNER of the land came onto the land, or more often a spokesman fo...
WHEN JOAD heard the truck get under way, gear climbing up to gear and ...
THE CONCRETE HIGHWAY was edged with a mat of tangled, broken, dry gras...
A HUGE RED TRANSPORT TRUCK stood in front of the little roadside resta...
TO THE RED COUNTRY and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last ...
Introduction"My whole work drive has been aimed at making people under...
