â‚¬Å“Life in what the newspapers call â‚¬Ëœthe Dust Bowlâ‚¬ is becoming a gritty nightmare,â‚¬Â Ann Marie Low wrote in 1934. Her diary vividly captures that

Dust Bowl Diary
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â‚¬Å“Life in what the newspapers call â‚¬Ëœthe Dust Bowlâ‚¬ is becoming a gritty nightmare,â‚¬Â Ann Marie Low wrote in 1934. Her diary vividly captures that â‚¬Å“gritty nightmareâ‚¬Â as it was lived by one rural familyâ‚¬"and by millions of other Americans.
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The books opens in 1927â‚¬"â‚¬Å“the last of the good yearsâ‚¬Ââ‚¬"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 yearsâ‚¬"a time of searing summer heat and desiccated fields, dying livestock, dust to the tops of fence posts and prices at rock bottomâ‚¬"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.
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Ann Marie Lowâ‚¬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.
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Many readers will recognize parts of their own past in Ann Marie Lowâ‚¬s story; for others it will serve as a compelling record of the Dust Bowl experience.
Country USA
Brand University of Nebraska Press
Manufacturer University of Nebraska Press
Binding Paperback
Height 8.5
Length 5.5
Weight 0.54895103238
Width 0.5
NumberOfItems 1
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	University of Nebraska Press
Manufacturer	University of Nebraska Press
Binding	Paperback
Height	8.5
Length	5.5
Weight	0.54895103238
Width	0.5
NumberOfItems	1
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Dust Bowl Diary

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