Sod-House Days Letters From a Kansas Homesteader 1877-78
Entry/Object ID
L1996.16.108
Description
Sod-House Days Letters from a Kansas Homesteader 1877-78 contains letters of Howard Ruede (some of which were published in his hometown paper in Bethlehem, PA.,) about his first year of homesteading in western Kansas. Edited by John Ise, an economics professor at the University of Kansas who had authored the book "Sod and Stubble." Foreword by Scott G. McNall, Chairman Department of Sociology at KU, who authored "Plains Families: Exploring Sociology through Social History".
248/Softbound/Illustration
