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...