The Author wrote about the hardship he and his family went through with not much help from the Government. This is the life and struggles of a family of six during the depression years. They say we are the essence of everything we have experienced and all the people we have met. It expresses the words my Dad used when we were in desperate situations. "ROOT-HOG or DIE." It describes how some families lived around Warsaw, Missouri. We lived in a cave for almost two years, under bridges, in cotton piles, what we slept on and how we kept dry, and out of the wind and cold. What we had for food,...

The Author wrote about the hardship he and his family went through with not much help from the Government. This is the life and struggles of a family of six during the depression years. They say we are the essence of everything we have experienced and all the people we have met. It expresses the words my Dad used when we were in desperate situations. "ROOT-HOG or DIE." It describes how some families lived around Warsaw, Missouri. We lived in a cave for almost two years, under bridges, in cotton piles, what we slept on and how we kept dry, and out of the wind and cold. What we had for food,...

I got the idea about this book by watching a neighbor feed his cats. He left a window open so the cats could come into his FL. room. Well a racoon got in, and was eating with the cats.