| Book Review | Western Historical Quarterly, 32.1

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Book Review

Waiting on the Bounty: The Dust Bowl Diary of Mary Knackstedt Dyck. Edited by Pamela Riney-Kehrberg. (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1999. xiv + 365 pp. Illustrations, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $37.95.)

Written primary source materials from rural women with little education are rare, as are social histories of the Dust Bowl. We are, therefore, indeed fortunate that Mary Knackstedt Dyck recorded her southwestern Kansas farm family's activities, that her daughters preserved her approximately three thousand page diary, and that those daughters entrusted the diary to Riney-Kehrberg, who has made available to us "roughly a third" of Dyck's October 1936 to May 1941 writings. 1

We are fortunate also that this diary comes to us as part of the larger research agenda of a mature scholar. Rooted in the Dust gives us an objective, scholarly analysis of the Dust Bowl and its effect on rural families in southwestern Kansas. And now, in Waiting for the Bounty we have the subjective authority of the individual commenting on her immediate experiences. . . .

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