Sod-House Days: Letters from a Kansas Homesteader, 1877-78
"Ruede's word pictures are vivid accounts of experiences gained in carving a farm from the Western plains."  --Rural Sociology"Stimulating and suggestive reading. [Readers] may well find in it something of the quality of a historical novel."  --New York Times Book Review"[These letters] supply first-hand information, of value to the historian, concerning the condition of agriculture in Kansas."  --Times Literary Supplement