Sod and Stubble: The Unabridged and Annotated Edition Ise John
Sod and Stubble: The Unabridged and Annotated Edition Ise John "A few years ago, as I listened one night to my mother telling incidents of her life pioneering in the semi-arid region of Western…
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Sod and Stubble: The Unabridged and Annotated Edition Ise John
"A few years ago, as I listened one night to my mother telling incidents of her life pioneering in the semi-arid region of Western Kansas, it occurred to me that the picture of that early time was worth drawing and preserving for the future, and that, if this were ever to be done, it must be done soon, before all of the old settlers were gone. It is the story of an energetic and capable girl, the child of German immigrant parents, who at the age of seventeen married a young German farmer, and moved to a homestead on the wind-swept plains of Kansas, where she reared eleven of her twelve children, and remembering regretfully her own half-day in school, sent nine of them through college. This book is the result--an effort to picture that life truly and realistically.
It is a story of grim and tenacious devotion in the face of hardships and disappointments, devotion that never flagged until