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- catalog abstract ""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 "A remarkable historical document, the diary describes a period in this century before the telephone and indoor plumbing were commonplace in rural homes - a time when farm families in the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.".
- catalog contributor b11447472.
- catalog contributor b11447473.
- catalog coverage "Hamilton County (Kan.) Biography.".
- catalog created "c1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "c1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1999.".
- catalog description ""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 "A remarkable historical document, the diary describes a period in this century before the telephone and indoor plumbing were commonplace in rural homes - a time when farm families in the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.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-357) and index.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 365 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0877456941 (cloth : acid-free paper)".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "c1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Iowa City : University of Iowa Press,".
- catalog spatial "Hamilton County (Kan.) Biography.".
- catalog spatial "Kansas Hamilton County".
- catalog subject "978.1/415032/092 B 21".
- catalog subject "Droughts Kansas Hamilton County History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939.".
- catalog subject "Dust storms Kansas Hamilton County History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Dyck, Mary Knackstedt Diaries.".
- catalog subject "F687.H3 D93 1999".
- catalog subject "Farm life Kansas Hamilton County History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Farmers Kansas Hamilton County Diaries.".
- catalog subject "German American women Kansas Hamilton County Diaries.".
- catalog subject "Women farmers Kansas Hamilton County Diaries.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "Waiting on the bounty : the Dust Bowl diary of Mary Knackstedt Dyck / edited by Pamela Riney-Kehrberg.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "Diaries. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".