This book does a wonderfull job of depicting the struggles involved in raising a family & building a farm on the great plains. Just 3 or 4 generations ago many of our own families were living the same life as the Ise's.

You can get so lost in this story that you will laugh and cry with the family as they go through the years.through birth and death rain and shine you will enjoy every line of this book.I got a real feeling of what it must have been like to settle the country, and the early years of this century. now that we are leaving the 1900's in the space age learn what it started out like.

"Our National Park Policy: A Critical History (Development of Public Land Law in the U.S. Series)" is a must for any scholar or casual historian interested in the making of America's national parks and the National Park Service. Ise chronicles, in an enjoyable prose, early stories about the creation of the first national parks and development of a single federal bureau to manage them.