The Other Side - Jordan by Joseph R. Miller

In the 1930's, H.L. Mencken said of the people who fled the dust bowl, "They are simply, by God's inscrutable will, inferior men, and inferior they will remain until by a stupendous miracle, He gives them equality among his angels."  This is the story of one such "inferior" man.  We first meet Jared as a child, walking away from the Kansas Dustbowl with his mother.