Aileen & Roy From Sod House to State House
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Aileen and Roy is the story of the author's parents: Roy Cochran, who rose from a sod house on a hardscrabble farm in western Nebraska to the state house in Lincoln as governor, and Aileen Gantt Cochran, a pioneer teacher and superintendent of schools in the Nebraska Sandhills.
Roy Cochran's three terms as governor (1935-41) covered the most critical years in the history of the West, when the population was ravaged by drought and the Great Depression, and new state-federal programs-social security, the WPA-were coming into being. Aileen Gantt grew up in the small town of North Platte at the end of the nineteenth century and supported her widowed mother and siblings as a teacher and county school superintendent. Their story, drawn from unpublished memoirs and family letters, provides a unique and intimate picture of life in a small western town around the turn of the century. It is also the story of two remarkable people who faced the challenge of governing in a time of despair and change.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780803232945 |
Publisher: | Bison Books |
Imprint: | Bison Books |
Pub date: | 01 Dec 2010 |
DEWEY: | 978.20330922 |
DEWEY edition: | 22 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 194 |
Weight: | 307g |
Height: | 152mm |
Width: | 229mm |
Spine width: | 11mm |