BOOKS WE RECOMMEND

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This Precious Love

by

Dr. Jeanne Hounshell

Growing Up on a Cherry County Nebraska Cattle Ranch

Claude Reyman

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Do you Remember?

by

Jay Brady

As Americans, we’ve long been enthralled with the story of cowboys and the West.  Here are three books describing that time in America’s history and you’ll want to read all three.

Jay’s book, DO YOU REMEMBER, is a walk down memory lane for all of us who grew up in the 40’s and 50’s.  He describes in vivid detail the events of small-town America.  But for those of us who grew up in the Nebraska Sandhills, it is ours—he remembers for us the paths we walked. 

It is a book to read a little at a time and savor.  If you leave it on your coffee table, the windmill on the cover will stimulate easy conversation. 

Claude’s book, GROWING UP ON A CHERRY COUNTY NEBRASKA CATTLE RANCH is a perfect companion.  He describes the ranch life with clarity and accuracy.  This book, filled with pictures taken on his family’s ranch details the hard work and fun the early pioneers who came to Nebraska lived.

It is a book you’ll read over and over and feel you’ve come to know this pioneer family. 

Both describe a time that is no more.  It is gone.  Though the beautiful land remains.

Jeanne’s novel, THIS PRECIOUS LOVE, makes this time live as she draws her characters sharp and true so that you learn how it felt to live on a ranch as she recounts wonderful stories of her early years as a cowgirl.  She deals honestly with the temptations of early love, the heartbreak of losing a child and the many challenges we all face as we go out into the world to forge our own futures. 

But THIS PRECIUOS LOVE is above all a love story.  A love that began with such great hope until the two young lovers were parted and lived almost half a century apart.  It is a book filled with inspiration and hope as Ken carries the dream of his lost love through all those years and after a life-threatening illness reaches out one last time to try to find his Jeanne.

Together these three books draw an accurate picture of life in the Nebraska Sandhills.  When you finish one, you’ll want to know more.  So pick up another.  And when you finish it, you’ll want to know even more.  You’ll want to own them all.  They are each one-of-a-kind a treasures in their own right.