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Waiting on the bounty : the Dust Bowl diary of Mary Knackstedt Dyck / edited by Pamela Riney-Kehrberg. [electronic resource]
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dyck, Mary Knackstedt.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dyck, Mary Knackstedt--Diaries.
- Dyck, Mary Knackstedt.
- Women farmers--Kansas--Hamilton County--Diaries.
- Women farmers.
- Farmers--Kansas--Hamilton County--Diaries.
- Farmers.
- German American women--Kansas--Hamilton County--Diaries.
- German American women.
- Dust storms--Kansas--Hamilton County--History--20th century.
- Dust storms.
- Droughts--Kansas--Hamilton County--History--20th century.
- Droughts.
- Farm life--Kansas--Hamilton County--History--20th century.
- Farm life.
- Hamilton County (Kan.)--Biography.
- Hamilton County (Kan.).
- Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939.
- Women farmers--History--20th century--Kansas--Hamilton County--Diaries.
- Farmers--History--20th century--Kansas--Hamilton County--Diaries.
- German American women--History--20th century--Kansas--Hamilton County--Diaries.
- Dust storms--Kansas--Hamilton County.
- Droughts--Hamilton County--Kansas.
- Farm life--Kansas--Hamilton County.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Diaries.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 365 p. ) ill., maps ;
- Place of Publication:
- Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "Though she had only a fifth-grade education, Mary Knackstedt Dyck faithfully kept a diary. Written with pencil on lined notebook paper, her daily notations tell the story of farm life on the far western border of Kansas during the grim Dust Bowl years. Manuscript diaries from this era and region are extremely rare, and those written by farm women are even more so. From the point of view of a wife, mother, and partner in the farming enterprise, Dyck recorded the everyday events as well as the frustrations of living with drought and dust storms and the sadness of watching one's children leave the farm."--BOOK JACKET. "A remarkable historical document, the diary describes a period in this century before the telephone and indoor plumbing were commonplace in rural homes - a time when farm families in the Plains states were isolated from world events and radio provided an enormously important link between farmsteads and the world at large. Waiting on the Bounty brings us unusual insights into the agricultural and rural history of the United States, detailing the tremendous changes affecting farming families and small towns during the Great Depression."--Jacket.
- Contents:
- A woman and her world
- Work, family, and "playing hookie": 1936
- Blowing dust and departures: 1937
- A little snow, a little rain, and hope: 1938
- Dust and hope deferred: 1939
- Blizzards, rain, and bounty: 1940
- The end of an era: 1941.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-357) and index.
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- ISBN:
- 1-58729-308-0
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