Betty Henshaw and her family once lived in Hominy, Okla., where they picked cotton. In 1947, the family pulled up stakes and drove west on Route 66 to find a better living in California — as many other Okies did.
Henshaw recalled her memories in a manuscript, which was quickly picked up by Texas Tech University and published. The title of the book is “Children of the Dust: An Okie Family Story.”
The Mail Tribune in Jackson County, Ore., has Henshaw’s story.