Days on the family farm : from the Golden Age through the Great Depression / Carrie A. Meyer.
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Days on the family farm : from the Golden Age through the Great Depression / Carrie A. Meyer.
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Publication Information:
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2022]
©2007
Physical Description:
1 online resource (x, 251 pages) : illustrations, maps
General Note:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Contents:
Introduction : diaries of a family farm -- The new century dawns, 1901-1910 -- The glow of the Golden Age, 1910-1914 -- The great war and its aftermath, 1914-1920 -- Down on the farm in the Roaring Twenties -- Depression, drought, and the next generation, 1930-1934 -- Fits and starts in the late 1930s -- Another great war fuels change -- Epilogue -- Appendix A. Principal characters -- Appendix B. Expenses, income, and net farm savings -- Appendix C. Primary full-time outdoor help -- Appendix D. Crop shares of total production, by period.
Summary:
Provides the diaries of Midwest farm wife May Lyford Davis who chronicled what it was like to run their family farm from the turn of the twentieth century through World War I, the Great Depression, and World War II, tracing the evolution of farming from horses to tractors and other machinery.
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