Historical Marker
Howdy Folks
Historical marker location:
1720 West Will Rogers Blvd (Oklahoma Route 88), Claremore, Oklahoma
Marker installed: 1973
The Official Will Rogers Poem. by David Randolph Milsten.
During the Great Depression, thousands of farmers in Oklahoma were displaced from their land due to drought and dust storms. Many of these farmers migrated to California in search of work, a journey that became known as the "Okie migration."