Arnold Bauer grew up on his family's 160-acre farm in Goshen Township in Clay County, Kansas, amidst a land of prairie grass and rich creek-bottom soil. His meditative and moving account of those years depicts a century-long narrative of struggle, survival and demise. A coming-of-age memoir set in the 1930s to '50s, it blends local history with personal reflection to paint a realistic picture of farm life and families from a now-lost world.