"Grandma Rhoda Yoder was a plucky Midwestern pioneer in North Dakota in 1904. Her husband John built a 15 x 15 foot homestead house located on a rise overlooking the vast prairie, with only grass as far as one could see. In 1907 after her husband died, this courageous woman, with three children and another on the way, managed a 160-acre farm and handed situations with Indians, gypsies, an Irish suitor, and a crooked banker."--P. 4 of cover.