Description
A simple poster was all it took to change the lives of a German immigrant and his family, sending them over 800 miles away from their home in Lockport, Illinois. In 1910, O.R. Winkler, an iron foundry worker, chanced upon a glowing advertisement for fertile farmland and ended up purchasing a half-section in southwest Kansas, the driest and least populated part of the state. Taking a leap of faith, he and his wife and sons loaded their belongings into a boxcar and traveled to Gray County where they began farming land that had never been plowed.
Author: Carol Kotsch
Publisher: Curtis Becker
Published: 08/23/2019
Pages: 230
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.52d
ISBN13: 9780578559421
ISBN10: 0578559420
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | State & Local | Midwest(IA,IL,IN,KS,MI,MN,MO
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs