My ancestors wrote a book. "The wealth she Gathered".

http://www.dgatx.com/family/places/Little-House/hs.html

Ranks up there in the little house on the prairie books for Kansas stories. My dad's mom was Alice Cooper of this Cooper family. So this author was my great grandmother. It was not easy living back then. Internet sucked and cell phones did not work well. Ipods used the old MP0 format.