What do you do when you've fallen through the ice on the way to school, or when your plow team has taken off with the harrower and dad is underneath it? How's about when a band of highwaymen have blocked the highline road? Ellen Opprecht's true stories from the 1940's on the Montana prairie bring to life a world most of us have left in the dust.
These tales from the town of Chinook and the farm where Ellen grew up with three siblings, bulls, pigs, trucks, tractors, fires, floods and the occasional snake are an antidote for the complications of the modern life.