The Chen family lived on a simple farm in Kansas in the late 1920’s; they grew corn and wheat and made a living off that. A few years past and the Stock market had crashed on Black Tuesday, October 24th, 1929(www.amatecon.com/gdtimeline.html). The Great Depression was setting in, and the Dustbowl hit in 1935(Garraty 57) all across the central part of the United States causing dust to be blown everywhere. This prevented all …showed first 75 words of 1505 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1505 total…Sam had sent her all of the ownership deeds to what he and Bobby had owned. Tom and Jaime became filthy rich and they located there family back in the cotton and grape picking farm and brought them to northern California to live with them. They all lived happily ever after in their new house, but next to them was an old rotting wooden barn, which seemed to have the inhabitants of some French people.