Great Plains Studies, Center for
Date of this Version
2006
Abstract
By "Midwest," Pamela Riney-Kehrberg means the states of Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, and the eastern half of Nebraska and Kansas, and by child, "any dependent son or daughter, generally twenty-one or younger, regardless of physical maturity, who remained subject to his or her parents' authority on the farm and in the home." She explains having "chosen 1870 as my starting date" to avoid the Civil War, and "1920 as an ending date because of upheavals occurring in the years that followed" (the automobile, radio, economic depression).
Comments
Published in GREAT PLAINS QUARTERLY 26:3 (Summer 2006). Copyright © 2006 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.