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Author:

Ossian, Lisa L., 1962-

Title:

The Depression dilemmas of rural Iowa, 1929-1933 / Lisa L. Ossian.

Publisher:

University of Missouri,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

xii, 237 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Depressions--1929--Iowa.
Depressions--1929--United States.
Agriculture--Iowa--History.
Coal mines and mining--Iowa.
Iowa--Economic conditions--20th century.
Iowa--Rural conditions.
Iowa--History--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-228) and index.

Contents:

"Main traveled gravel roads" : an Iowa tour before the fall, 1929 -- October 1929: the stock market plummets : echoes during the fall plowing: Iowa's reactions to the Wall Street crash -- Welfare : renewed concerns, new prescriptions: politics of farm children's health -- Domesticity : making do: farm women's coping through creative homemaking -- Art : "An Athens of sorts": poetry of place and farm playlets -- Industry : the angry, fading district thirteen: the demise of soft-coal mining -- Violence : gangsters, bandits, mad men, and suicides: fear, anger, and death within a troubled landscape -- Policy : prohibition possibly prohibited: voicing temperance concerns -- November 1932: the presidential farm campaigns : dealing anew or same stacked deck? -- The depth yet the crest : Iowa's dilemmas by 1933 -- "Too much" and "too little" : rural Iowa after 1933.

ISBN:

0826219462
9780826219466

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

E7OX522 -- State Historical Society of Iowa Library (Des Moines)

SPPE104 -- Independence Public Library (Independence)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

GUPF501 -- Newton Public Library (Newton)

AAPF906 -- Ottumwa Public Library (Ottumwa)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)