Always Plenty to Do: Growing Up on a Farm in the Long Ago

The story of childhood on America’s farms in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, Always Plenty to Do is a journey back to America’s breadbasket. Fleshing out the contours of everyday life, it reveals what farm children saw, heard, smelled, tasted, and felt—and how they worked, played, and learned. Drawing upon rich primary sources from the Great Plains and Midwest, Riney-Kehrberg combines biography and historical narrative to invite young readers into the nation’s rural past.Al...