Central Kansas Library System

A collection of letters by nineteenth-century homesteader Howard Ruede in which he chronicles his first year in Kansas while writing back to his family in Pennsylvania, covering topics such as poverty, unsanitary conditions, and starvation.

"The next book in the A letter to my series (after A letter to my dog and A letter to my cat) takes on mothers, with celebrities and civilians writing letters of gratitude and admiration to the women who raised them, alongside ... intimate photos"--Amazon.com.