I prefer the updated one that is about the '30's and why all the black dirt blew away. It was so fertilizer plants controlled the fields and if they had crops or not. Industrial farming practices came in about then and 30 years later it was a completed task as it claimed even the homesteads.
Were the Hobo towns of that particular a place of danger or were the destitute helping each other survive?
We're talking about Penetang, not Piapot.