• Openning
  • Front Cover
  • Genealogy Chart
  • Picture 1
  • Openning Page
  • Preface
• My Childhood Home
  • Childhood home
  • The House we lived in
  • The Neighbors
  • School Days
  • The Barn Raising
  • Thrashing Time
  • Making Apple Butter
  • To Visit Grandpa & Grandma
  • Getting ready for Sunday School
  • A 10 o'clock piece in the field
  • The Ducks
  • Peddlers & Tramps
  • The German Boy
  • A black cat crossed the road
• The Move to Iowa & Kansas
  • A public sale
  • Loading the cars
  • The train trip
  • Hazards of play
  • The horses
  • Cats and dogs in Kansas
  • The well
  • Using the big wagon
  • Horse fatalities
  • Riding and driving horses
  • A near miss
  • To College and the inevitable
  • How it happened
  • Begining married life in Denver
  • Christmas with new friends
  • In a house with plumbing
• Back to the farm in Kansas
  • Back to the farm in Kansas
  • Father built in McPherson
  • Visitors - Welcome & unwelcome
  • Getting and keeping money
  • Because of the weather
  • Looking for a new location
  • A 2-room house with cook-stove
  • Christmas in a better place
  • Hunting and trapping
  • Work in kitchen and field
  • Making the best of it
  • Lumber and coal
  • Pleasure trips
  • Night visitors
• From Kansas to Oklahoma
  • The covered wagon start
  • The children and I board a train
  • Beds on the floor in two rooms
  • Carpentering and a better place
  • Hurricane cave or carpet, which?
  • A baby for Christmas
  • Buying and build on qtr. section
  • Putting down roots
  • Expansion and growth
  • Visiting back and forth
  • The counrty doctor
  • War troubles begins
  • Conscientious objectors
• We move to Idaho
  • The automobile trip
  • Twin Falls and an old friend
  • Boise Valley - or was it Paradise
  • The family at present
• Appendia
  • My father's family
  • My mother's family
• Early Married Life of My Parents

 

"Father" is David Bower my great grandfather

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