Millions of acres of farmland were damaged, and hundreds of thousands of people were forced to leave their homes ; many of these families ( often known as " Okies ", since so many came from Oklahoma ) migrated to California and other states, where they found economic conditions little better during the Great Depression than those they had left.

In just over a year, over 86, 000 people migrated to California.

Francis Marion (" Bud ") Wright, an Iowa farm boy who migrated to California as a young man, became a ranch hand for Senator Porter and later co-developer of the Hawk Ranch, which is now Northridge land.

The first permanent residents arrived in El Monte around 1849-1850 mostly from Texas, Arkansas and Missouri, during a time when thousands migrated to California in search of gold.

The couple were natives of Connecticut who had migrated to Illinois and then California before arriving in Sunrise.

Miss Walker, quite coincidentally, was an American whose New York family had migrated west to California at the time of the 1849 gold rush and eventually continued on, by ship, to settle in Australia.

Even more southern blacks migrated to California, where buildup of defense industries provided good jobs without the restrictions of the segregated South.

The states of the United States where most Nicaraguans migrated to include Florida, California and Texas.

Due to the activities of the Mexican Inquisition in Nuevo León, many crypto-Jewish descendants migrated to other frontier colonies further west to the trade routes passing through the towns of Sierra Madres Occidental and Chihuahua, Hermosillo and Cananea ( Canaan ) and further north on the trade route to Paso del Norte ( Juarez / El Paso ) and Santa Fe ( both cities in the then colonial Province of New Mexico ), Bisbee Arizona and somewhat less in Alta California.

Nearly all were contractees of the Hudson's Bay Company although some had arrived in the area as ship's hands or, in some cases, migrated north from California.

Shortly after that, Bean chose to leave California and migrated to New Mexico to live with Sam.

He had four siblings who all migrated to California during the Depression.

By the middle of the 19th century, as settlers migrated across the plains to Oregon and California, the wasteland connotation of " desert " was seen to be false, but the sense of the region as uninhabitable remained until irrigation, railroad transportation, and barbed wire made up for the lack of surface water and wood.

In the mid-1930s, during the Dust Bowl era, large numbers of farmers fleeing ecological disaster and the Great Depression migrated from the Great Plains and Southwest regions to California mostly along historic U. S. Route 66.

In the fall of 1942, Ailey's mother, in common with many African Americans, migrated to Los Angeles, California, where she had heard there was lucrative work supporting the war effort.

Born in Vienna, Austria, Gernreich fled the country at age 16 due to Nazism, and later migrated to the United States, settling in Los Angeles, California.

Ethnic groups found in a broader area are Portuguese, Armenians, Basques, and the " Okies " who migrated to California from the Midwest and South.

Many Koreans migrated to California and Hawaii, and brought back firsthand accounts of modern business and governmental practices that they sought to adapt to Korean conditions.

These birds once bred in North America from northwestern Indiana west to Oregon in the U. S., and in Canada from James Bay to the Yukon, and they migrated as far south as Texas and southern California.

His family had previously migrated to California as many other families from the United States due to the California Gold Rush.

Ignatius was born in 1920, Glendale, California, the son of Armenian parents who migrated to the United States, Elisa ( née Jamgochian ) and Hovsep " Joseph " B. Ignatius.

By the mid-1870s, Ringo had migrated from San Jose, California to Mason County, Texas.

In addition to major metropolitan areas such as New York, many Puerto Ricans also migrated to areas such as Chicago, Florida, Boston, and even California.

Some have understood Ammianus's testimony as a claim that at the time of Atlantis's actual sinking into the sea, its inhabitants fled to western Europe ; but Ammianus in fact says that “ the Drasidae ( Druids ) recall that a part of the population is indigenous but others also migrated in from islands and lands beyond the Rhine " ( Res Gestae 15. 9 ), an indication that the immigrants came to Gaul from the north ( Britain, the Netherlands or Germany ), not from a theorized location in the Atlantic Ocean to the south-west.

It is not certain when they migrated at an unknown period into the country of the Mesopotamian sea-lands about the head of the Persian Gulf.

They appear to have evolved in Alaska from people using the Arctic small tool tradition who probably had migrated to Alaska from Siberia at least 2, 000 to 3, 000 years earlier, though they might have been in Alaska as far back as 10, 000 to 12, 000 years or more.

However, the 2010 sequencing of the Neanderthal genome indicated that Neanderthals did indeed interbreed with anatomically modern humans circa 45, 000 to 80, 000 years ago ( at the approximate time that modern humans migrated out from Africa, but before they dispersed into Europe, Asia and elsewhere ).

It might seem unusual that Hesiod's father migrated from Asia Minor westwards to mainland Greece, the opposite direction to most colonial movements at the time, and Hesiod himself gives no explanation for it.

Muslim scholars have also linked both prophets through the fact that both prophets made at least one important journey in their lives ; just as Jacob migrated from Canaan to Egypt, Muhammad migrated from Mecca to Medina.

During World War II, about 30, 000 Polish refugees migrated to Karachi, at that time under British colonial rule. Many of these Polish families settled permanently in the city.

Disgruntled with his opportunities in Etruria ( he had been prohibited from obtaining political office in Tarquinii because of the ethnicity of his father, Demaratus the Corinthian, who came from the Greek city of Corinth ), he migrated to Rome with his wife Tanaquil, at her suggestion.

Disgruntled with his opportunities there, Priscus migrated to Rome with his wife Tanaquil, at her suggestion.

Leaving Changsha, Mao moved to the capital city of Peking, where his school mentor Yang Changji had recently migrated to take up a job at Peking University.

This is most likely the time at which the species migrated from the Eurasian continent to North America.

The roots of Australian marsupials are thought to trace back tens of millions of years to when much of the current southern hemisphere was part of the supercontinent of Gondwana ; marsupials are believed to have originated in what is now South America and migrated across Antarctica, which had a temperate climate at the time.

date according to some Muslims, he is believed to have survived crucifixion and migrated towards the East where he died naturally of old age and is believed to be buried at the Roza Bal shrine in Srinagar, Kashmir )

Tyndale's family had migrated to Gloucestershire at some point in the fifteenth century – probably as a result of the Wars of the Roses.

He however introduced and propagated several myths, such as the idea that swallows hibernated in winter although he noted that cranes migrated from the steppes of Scythia to the marshes at the headwaters of the Nile.

They may have migrated from the north and moved south into Muscogee Creek territory and settled at the sites of mounds built by the Mississippian culture.

The Xiongnu were a people who had migrated in and out of China proper, especially during times of turmoil, apparently at least since the days of the Qin.

Berkenhout gave the brown rat the binomial name Rattus norvegicus, believing it had migrated to England from Norwegian ships in 1728, although no brown rat had entered Norway at that time.

The impression gained from the Books of Chronicles is that the tribe wasn't entirely fixed in location ; at one point it is mentioned that some members of the tribe migrated southwards to Gedor, so as to find suitable pasture for their sheep.

About 42 African ethnic groups live in this country ; these various groups settled in Benin at different times and also migrated within the country.

The cliff-hanger migrated to film and is best known from the popular silent film series The Perils of Pauline ( 1914 ), shown in weekly installments and featuring Pearl White as the title character, a perpetual damsel in distress who was menaced by assorted villains, with each installment ending with her placed in a situation that looked sure to result in her imminent death – to escape at the beginning of the next installment only to get into fresh danger at its end.

Muslims usually migrated at night due to fear of Quraish's resistance to that migration, but Umar is reported to have migrated openly during the day time saying ; Any one who wants to make his wife a widow and his children orphans.