Panorama of the Prairie

Illustration of the prairie along route 66 from The Grapes of Wrath, vol.1 p.185, 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. "The western land, nervous under the beginning change." " There is little difference between this tractor and a tank. The people are driven, intimidated, hurt by both. We must think about this."