Complex sentence: As was typical of agricultural families all of the Lillie children worked alongside their parents at the mill. Gordon attended regular grammar school and according to his memoirs supplemented his reading assignments with dime novels, many of which described life in the Old West and Buffalo Bill.
Split into simpler sentences: As was typical of agricultural families, all of the Lillie children worked alongside their parents at the mill. Gordon attended regular grammar school. According to his memoirs, he supplemented reading assignments with dime novels, many of which described life in the Old West and Buffalo Bill.