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Author Dyck, Mary Knackstedt.

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

Imprint Iowa City, Iowa : University of Iowa Press, c1999.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  978.1415032 D984Bw    ---  Available
Description xiv, 365 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-357) and index.
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.
Subject Dyck, Mary Knackstedt -- Diaries.
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.
Hamilton County (Kan.) -- Biography.
Added Author Riney-Kehrberg, Pamela.
ISBN 0877456941 (acid-free paper)

 
    
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