Kohl and her sister staked a claim on the former Sioux lands of South Dakota early in the twentieth century and lived in a tarpaper shack on the open prairie. She tells the story of the homesteaders around them: drought, prairie fire, land locators, a banker who kept his doors open day and night, and the country newspaper she ran.
One of the finest memoirs of the last American homestead frontier. Download the free EPUB.