136:. Buss moved to Wisconsin in 1976. She wanted to continue her work as an oral historian though the field was in its infancy and she had little money or academic support. Often living at a distance from the women she wanted to interview, she sorted out a system of visits throughout the USA involving a
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Moisture of the Earth: Mary
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migrants to the United States of America. The book won the
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