These little communities have passed out of existence with the many technological changes of today. In this book he tells about the one room country school he attended with all eight grades and only one teacher. Also, the machine shop before electric power, the store where his mother sent him to get supplies, the sawmill operated with a steam powered tractor, windmills used to pump water for the livestock, an Altman Taylor tractor used to power the thrashing machine when harvesting wheat and oats, and a medicine man named Indian John who lived in the community.