This site contains excerpts from my grandmother’s books about her life growing up in Hermann, MO, and then homesteading (near a road that turned to a highway) in Montana. Click on the categories, and scroll all the way to the first entry to read the books in sequence.
My Golden Rule Days
In the Intro:
“This book was intended only of her school days, but other aspects of living at this time kept coming to mind, so they are told as well.”
We Went Westward . . . Ho Ho Ho
In the Intro:
“This is a story of the days when wearing patched coveralls and flour sack clothing was not a fad, but a necessity.”
Living with a Displaced Family
From an Indian Trail to 18 Wheelers
In the Intro:
“This book is a work of fact, as closely as the author remembers. It is the story of the making of a highway, shaped out of range land. From mud to dust to paved for the present day busy traffic. Humor and tragedy and all between, told as it happened, with the emphasis more on the highway than people.”
