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The Grapes of Wrath revisited

From Oklahoma to California, Chris McGreal re-traces the route of Steinbeck's epic depression era novel
  • The Grapes of Wrath revisited: Migrants past & present

  • Farming land near Weedpatch, Lamont, California

    Route 66: Weedpatch migrant camp, California

  • The Grapes of Wrath revisited: Migrants past and present

  • The Grapes of Wrath revisited: The changing face of Valle Vista, Arizona

  • Route 66 at Oatman, Arizona during the Grapes of Wrath road trip.

    Route 66: Day Four

    The fourth set of images of the trail of John Steinbeck's novel Grapes of Wrath

  • The Grapes of Wrath revisited: The changing face of Valle Vista, Arizona

    Foreclosures of this decade are stripping homes to the rafters in one Arizona retreat
    • Route 66: into the badlands

    • The Grapes of Wrath revisited: Life on a Navajo reservation

    • The Grapes of Wrath revisited: The plight of Native Americans

  • The Grapes of Wrath revisited: A deserted Texan town

    In the second instalment of our series retracing the path of the Grapes of Wrath, Chris McGreal travels to the once-bustling town of Glen Rio, Texas to find a ghost town. He meets a woman who lives alone amidst her memories, not wanting to move

  • A derelict Gulf filling station in McLean, Texas, a ghost town on Route 66.

    Route 66: ghost towns

    In the second series of images on the trail of John Steinbeck's novel Grapes of Wrath, the desolation continues with ghost towns in Oklahoma, Texas and New Mexico

  • The Grapes of Wrath revisited: Dust to dust for the ghosts of Route 66

    Chris McGreal continues his series following John Steinbeck's fictional journey, and finds life has bypassed the road's nearly deserted towns

    • The Grapes of Wrath revisited: Healthcare in Tulsa, Oklahoma

    • The Grapes of Wrath revisited: 'People can't afford routine medical care'

    • Route 66: echoes of Steinbeck's desolation

  • From dust to bust, America's poor take on a new type of monster

  • 'Main Street' in Erick on Route 66

    Same road, same grim story, same sense of optimism

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