Its 1928 ... the Great Depression lurks just around the corner.

Divorcing a cheating husband means disgracing her family, but Claire Devoe cant take it anymore. Forced to provide for herself, she travels the Midwest with a sales crew. Can she trust the God who didnt save her first marriage to lead her through the maze of new love and overwhelming expectations? The long twilight of the Great Depression-with its debt, disgrace, drought, and despair-becomes the crucible that remakes her life.

Daughter of the Cimarron is the fictionalized tale of the authors mother as she went from ragtime to...

IT HAS been the good fortune of the writer of these lines to become rather intimately acquainted with Samuel Hall, colored, of Washington, Iowa. When I was in the grocery business Mr. Hall used to peddle vegetables and occasionally he would unload a few bunches of onions, radishes, early beets, new potatoes, tomatoes, celery, etc., at our store. On such occasions it was always a pleasure to "jolly" the old man for he was old then--a dozen years ago. He was an old man thirty and even forty years ago, old as boys and girls look upon age, but always he has been young in spirit and even as a...