Growing up on a farm. Childhood life on a farm. Memories of the past. Family memories. Roads of success. Roads of failure. Growing up in 1930s. Growing up in America in the 1930s. Growing up in the 1940s. Growing up in America in 1940s. Growing up in the 1950s. Growing up in America 1950s. Married in 1955. Married at age seventeen in America. Married seventeen in the 1950s. Construction job 1950s. Construction job 1960s. Career as a construction worker. Construction worker in America. American construction 1940s. Purchasing a motel. Owning a motel. Budget Hotel in the 1950s. All-American life in the midcentury. All-American life in Kansas. Living in the Midwest. Midwestern life in the midcentury. Autobiography of life on a Kansas farm. Autobiography of life in Kansas in the 1930s. Autobiography of life on a Kansas farm in the 1940s.