A Good Day's Work
Subtitle: An Iowa Farm in the Great Depression
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee, Publisher
Published: June 25, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781566637022
Subjects: Agriculture & Farming; American history: from c 1900 -; Social history; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; 20th Century World History; Farm Management; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; USA; Farmers & Ranchers; Personal Memoirs; Gardening / General; United States - 20th Century; 1929; 20th century; Depressions; Farm life; History; Iowa; Mahaska County; Seasons
Description: A Depression-era farmer recounts four seasons worth of daily life on his childhood family's farm, a period marked by rural hardships, the transition from horse labor to tractors, and the approach of World War II.