Pioneers come to California

Illustration of Pioneers come to California from The Grapes of Wrath, vol.2 p.285, illustrated edition, by Thomas Hart Benton, a native of eastern Oklahoma, who was assigned to draw archetypal Oklahomans for 20th Century Fox as the studio believed that would make the casting more accurate. "Once California belonged to Mexico and its land to Mexicans; and a horde of tattered feverish Americans poured in. And such was their hunger for the land that they took the land." "Then, with time, the squatters were no longer squatters, but owners; and their children grew up and had children on the land."