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

By:

Dyck, Mary Knackstedt

Contributor(s):

Riney-Kehrberg, Pamela

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

1587293080
9781587293085

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Waiting on the bounty.DDC classification:

978.1/415032/092 B 21

LOC classification:

F687.H3 D93 1999eb

Other classification:

15.85

Online resources:

Click here to access online

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.

Action note:

digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve

Review: "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 "A remarkable historical document, the diary describes a period in this century before the telephone and indoor plumbing were commonplace in rural homes - a time when farm families in the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.

Item type:

Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.

Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)

Holdings
Item type	Home library	Collection	Call number	Materials specified	Status	Date due	Barcode
Electronic-Books	OPJGU Sonepat- Campus	E-Books EBSCO			Available

Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-357) and index.

Print version record.

Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL

"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.

Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL

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. MiAaHDL

http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212

digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL

English.

eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - Worldwide

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.