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I wrote this book at the urging of my family... To leave a record of the way it was and the way it has become. - - To establish a current record dating back to the homesteading days of my grandparents in 1884 continuing with a living family tree including my life history. - - To preserve the story of a four year old boy, whose first memories are of riding in a horse drawn buggy with his mother as she drove to the voting place in 1920 to cast her first vote after ratification of the 19th Amendment that gave women the right to vote. To recall the story of a rural America where all farming was done with horse power and the fuel was located in a nearby granary. - - To tell the Tom Sawyer-like stories of a boy growing up during those times. - - To revisit the Roaring 20s with its boom and bust economy and the emergence of the flappers and their influence on women's wear. - - To remember the one-room school house, the Model T Ford, the silent movies and more. - - To relive the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt and his fireside chats that restored the confidence of a broken America. - - To recount the many New Deal programs that brought prosperity to America's farmers. - - To tell the disheartening stories of farm foreclosures of the 1930s and the legislative battle led by SD Farmers Union to pass the ore tax bill. - - To highlight the story of the South Dakota Farmers Union as it grew to a membership of 20,000 family farmers to become a major influence in the SD Legislature. - - To enlarge on the growth of the cooperative movement and creation of Farmers Union Grain Terminal Association (GTA) and Farmers Union Central Exchange (Cenex) as they struggled for farm bargaining power in the market place. ____ In this book I try to balance politics and Farmers Union with a love affair that I have with my family that now includes grandchildren and great-grandchildren as they grow up to find their place in this world. If you are a grandparent, you will especially enjoy the segment entitled, About Grandchildren. ____ Come with me on my travels as we visit five continents and interact with the living and explore the ancient past.

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