Waiting on the Bounty

Download or read book Waiting on the Bounty written by Mary Knackstedt Dyck and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2005-02 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remarkable historical document, this diary describes a period before the telephone and indoor plumbing were commonplace in rural homes, a time when farm families in the Plains states were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 US, detailing the tremendous changes affecting farming families and small towns during the Great Depression.