Supplemet: My Kansas place had a hand dug cisterm lined with brick that dated to the civil war, 30' deep, and 10' in diameter. The hand pump in the kichen from that worked great, no matter what the weather.

You can do the same thing, almost, today with a boring rig and concrete preform. You can supply it with a windmill, easy. My well there was so bad it just supplied a trickle into the cistern, but it got us by for household use.