Book Synopsis
Sam and Eda Suess spent childhood years of 1885-1905 on the Kansas prairie. As adults they wrote the details of sod house construction, prairie fires and crop failure before the family moved to Garden City, Kansas where they at last attended regular schools. Their parents seemingly could do anything, from building a house or digging a well, to delivering a baby or preaching a sermon, but they couldn't get corn or wheat out of a perpetually dry Kansas field and to market.
These are the memories of a brother and sister, written down as neighboring adults in La Verne, California in the 1960s where they spent their later years-- happily removed from that struggle, but delighting in telling the stories to younger family members.