Aileen & Roy : from sod house to State House /
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| Author / Creator: | Grimes, Mary Cochran. |
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| Imprint: | Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2010. |
| Description: | 194 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8269009 |
| Summary: | 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 Their story, drawn from unpublished memoirs and family letters, provides a unique and intimate picture of life in a small western town around the turn of the century.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. |
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| Item Description: | Originally published: New York : Universe, 2008. |
| Physical Description: | 194 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780803232945 0803232942 |
