Yonnondio: from the thirties

About this book

Yonnondio follows the heartbreaking path of the Holbrook family in the late 1920s and the Great Depression as they move from the coal mines of Wyoming to a tenant farm in western Nebraska ending up finally on the kill floors of the slaughterhouses and in the wretched neighborhoods of the poor in Omaha Nebraska.Mazie the oldest daughter in the growing family of Jim and Anna Holbrook tells the story of the familys desire for a better life Annas dream that her children be educated and Jims wish for a life lived out in the open away from the darkness and danger of the mines. At every turn in their journey however their dreams are frustrated and the family is jeopardized by cruel and indifferent systems.