Title Waiting on the bounty : the Dust Bowl diary of Mary Knackstedt Dyck / edited by Pamela Riney-Kehrberg

Published Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©1999

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 365 pages) : illustrations, maps 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 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 "A remarkable historical document, the diary describes a period in this century before the telephone and indoor plumbing were commonplace in rural homes - a time when farm families in the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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-357) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Dyck, Mary Knackstedt -- Diaries SUBJECT Dyck, Mary Knackstedt fast Subject Women farmers -- Kansas -- Hamilton County -- Diaries Farmers -- Kansas -- Hamilton County -- Diaries German American women -- Kansas -- Hamilton County -- Diaries Dust storms -- Kansas -- Hamilton County -- History -- 20th century Droughts -- Kansas -- Hamilton County -- History -- 20th century Farm life -- Kansas -- Hamilton County -- History -- 20th century HISTORY -- State & Local. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical. Droughts Dust storms Farm life Farmers German American women Women farmers Droogte. Landbouw. Dagelijks leven. SUBJECT Hamilton County (Kan.) -- Biography Subject Kansas -- Hamilton County Kansas. Genre/Form autobiographies (literary works) Autobiographies Biographies Diaries History Dagboeken (vorm) Autobiographies. Biographies. Autobiographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book Author Riney-Kehrberg, Pamela ISBN 1587293080 9781587293085

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