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Reviewed on February 1, 1994
K-Gr 3 A simple, personal narrative based on stories told to the author by his grandmother. In the early part of this century, Essie's father, a hired hand on a Missouri farm, builds a covered wagon and takes the family to western Kansas, where he can have his own farm. Vignettes of their life there follow. During their second year in Kansas, the farm fails, so the family moves on to Oklahoma and the oil fields. After anot...Log In or Sign Up to Read More