Dust Bowl Diary Depression Era Memoir Farm Girl 1st 1984 Low Nebraska Rural HC

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Condition
Very Good
A book that has been read but is in excellent condition. No obvious damage to the cover, with the dust jacket included for hard covers. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, and no underlining/highlighting of text or writing in the margins. May be very minimal identifying marks on the inside cover. Very minimal wear and tear. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
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“DUST BOWL DIARY. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 1984 First Edition / First Print. Near ...
Country of Origin
United States
Signed
No
Type
firsthand Dust Bowl memoir, rural American historical diary, wome
Signed By
NA
Vintage
Yes
Edition
First Edition
Original Language
English
Narrative Type
Nonfiction
Personalized
No
Inscribed
No
Features
Hardcover, 1984 pub, 1st edition, 1st print, Mylar protected, vin
Ex Libris
No
Personalize
No
Era
1930s
Intended Audience
Adults
Literary Movement
Great Depression narrative nonfiction, Dust Bowl autobiographical
ISBN
9780803228641
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
ISBN-10
0803228643
ISBN-13
9780803228641
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1292106

Product Key Features

Book Title
Dust Bowl Diary
Number of Pages
188 Pages
Language
English
Topic
General, United States / State & Local / MidWest (IA, Il, in, Ks, Mi, MN, Mo, Nd, Ne, Oh, Sd, Wi)
Publication Year
1984
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
History
Author
Ann Low, Ann Marie Low
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Weight
15 oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
84-003672
Dewey Edition
19
Dewey Decimal
978.4/032/0924
Synopsis
"Life in what the newspapers call 'the Dust Bowl' is becoming a gritty nightmare," Ann Marie Low wrote in 1934. Her diary vividly captures that "gritty nightmare" as it was lived by one rural family--and by millions of other Americans. The books opens in 1927--"the last of the good years"--when Ann Marie is a teenager living with her parents, brother, and sister on a stock farm in southeastern North Dakota. We follow her family and friends, descendants of homesteaders, through the next ten years--a time of searing summer heat and desiccated fields, dying livestock, dust to the tops of fence posts and prices at rock bottom--a time when whole communities lost their homes and livelihoods to mortgages and, hardest of all, to government recovery programs. We also see the coming to maturity of the author in the face of economic hardship, frustrating family circumstances, and the stifling restrictions that society then placed on young women. Ann Marie Low's diary, supplemented with reminiscences, offers a rich, circumstantial view of rural life a half century ago: planting and threshing before the prevalence of gasoline-powered engines, washing with rain water and ironing with sadirons, hauling coal on sleds over snow-clogged roads, going to end-of-school picnics and country dances, and hoarding the egg and cream money for college. Here, too, is an iconoclastic on-the-scene account of how a federal work project, the construction of a wildlife refuge, actually operated. Many readers will recognize parts of their own past in Ann Marie Low's story; for others it will serve as a compelling record of the Dust Bowl experience.
LC Classification Number
F636.L92 1984

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