Golden Age, Great Depression, and Dust Bowl

Ellen May Stanley has written several books on the history of Lane County, Kansas. Golden Age, Great Depression and Dust Bowl tells the story of Lane County from 1914 through 1939. Read letters written home by Lane County soldiers during the war of 1918, the prosperous time the wars demand for wheat brought to the county followed by the drought and depression of the 1930's. Ellen May Stanley describes how these early Lane Countians entertained themselves and how their lives changed through the Golden Age, Great Depression and Dust Bowl days.