Fontell Littrell's grandmother was a devout Latter-Day Saint. But
when Fontell's father turned to bootlegging and poker to support an
extended family of ten during the dirty thirties, her grandmother
took it in stride. "The Lord works in mysterious ways, his miracles
to perform," she rationalized.
The Litrells' story and those of thousands of others who rode
out the dust bowl in southwest Kansas are the focus of Pamela
Riney-Kehrberg's study of survival in a drought-ridden decade.
Unlike other historians, who have dwelt on those who fled hardship,
Riney-Kehrberg concentrates on the majority--three-quarters of the
population--who endured.
Examining the social impact of drought and depression, she
illustrates how both farm and town families dealt with the
deprivation by finding odd jobs, working in government programs, or
depending on federal and private assistance. Years of tribulation,
she shows, affected standards of living, family relationships, city
and county finances, land ownership, farm prices and production,
population shifts, and politics (traditionally staunchly
Republican, southwest Kansas twice voted for Roosevelt). Looking
also at the environmental impact, Riney-Kehrberg presents both the
negative and positive sides of farming practices and governmental
intervention.
Most Kansans persevered for nearly ten years, Riney-Kehrberg
emphasizes, and how they adapted indelibly altered their outlook
and plans for the future More than fifty years later, the
devastating dust storms continue to affect agricultural practices
and policy and the population of southwest Kansas.
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