Dust Bowl families paid 50 cents a week to stay at this auto camp north of Calipatria, Calif. (1937) Steinbeck writes: &amp;quot;Because they were lonely and perplexed, because they had all come from a place of sadness and worry and defeat, and because they were all going to a new mysterious place, they huddled together...they shared their lives...and the things they hoped for in the new country.&amp;quot;