Johanna Hytrek and her small family emigrated from Poland in 1886 to settle on the Nebraska prairie. In the form of a personal journal, her granddaughter Rita has written a fact-based story that rings true. With her careful research on living in sod houses, building a rural community, and the realities of farming in the sandhills, Rita brings you a story fully convincing of the hardships and joys of surviving in a new land.