New York, London, Funk & Wagnalls Co., 1938.

TO
THE MEMORY OF
IDA MARY

CONTENTS

[A Word of Explanation]xxxiii
I[A Shack on the Prairie]1
II[Down to Grass Roots]16
III["Any Fool Can Set Type"]36
IV[The Biggest Lottery in History]46
V[No Place for Clinging Vines]64
VI["Utopia"]83
VII[Building Empires Overnight]99
VIII[Easy as Falling Off a Log]120
IX[The Opening of the Rosebud]143
X[The Harvest]164
XI[The Big Blizzard]185
XII[A New America]199
XIII[The Thirsty Land]214
XIV[The Land of the Burnt Thigh]238
XV[Up in Smoke]253
XVI[Fallowed Land]268
XVII[New Trails]282