No Time on My Hands
~ by Nellie
Snyder Yost ~
(With mother, Grace McCance Snyder)
The
story of Grace Snyder's life homesteading in Nebraska.
From a diary written
by a young Grace in Nebraska in 1898.
As a little girl, Grace Snyder had
three dreams:
to marry a cowboy, to see the top side of a cloud, and to make
the most beautiful quilts in the world.
This book is about how her dreams
came true. She tells about her girlhood, her marriage and family,
and making
the quilts that earned her many ribbons and a reputation as one of America's finest
quilters.
She lived the life of her dreams.
Grace
Snyder and Nellie Snyder Yost
Taken at Grace's home in 1963
From
her childhood in a sod house to a pioneer woman in the Nebraska Sandhills,
she
accurately tells the story of what it was like to live in a rapidly changing world.
It is amazing to think of how hard life was on the prairie, and yet she found
time
to make the most exquisite quilts.
Visit
the Nebraska History site to get a copy of the book, 'No Time on My Hands' http://www.nebraskahistory.org/oversite/store/quilts.htm |
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