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"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.".
"A remarkable historical document, the diary describes a period in this century before the telephone and indoor plumbing were commonplace in rural homes - a time when farm families in the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."--BOOK JACKET.
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Biography, Diaries, Droughts, Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939, Dust storms, Farm life, Farmers, German American women, History, Women farmersPeople
Mary Knackstedt DyckPlaces
Hamilton County, Hamilton County (Kan.), KansasTimes
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Waiting on the bounty: the Dust Bowl diary of Mary Knackstedt Dyck
1999, University of Iowa Press
in English
0877456941 9780877456940
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-357) and index.
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