{"product_id":"aileen-and-roy-up-from-the-sand-hills-to-the-state-house-0595480500","title":"Aileen and Roy: Up from the Sand Hills to the State House","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0595480500\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Grimes, Mary Cochran\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAileen and Roy is the story of the author's parents, Roy Cochran, who rose from a sod house on a hard-scrabble farm in western Nebraska to the state house in Lincoln as governor, and his wife, Aileen Gantt Cochran, a pioneer teacher and superintendent of schools in the Nebraska sand hills. Roy Cochran's three terms as governor (1935-41) covered the most critical years in the history of the West, when the population was ravaged by drought and the Great Depression and new state-federal programs-social security, the WPA-were coming into being. Aileen Gantt grew up in the small town of North Platte at the end of the 19th century and supported her widowed mother and siblings as a teacher and county school superintendent. Their story, drawn from unpublished memoirs and family letters, provides a unique and intimate picture of life in a small western town around the turn of the century. It is also the story of two remarkable people who faced the challenge of governing in a time of despair and change.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51955574276384,"sku":"NEW0595480500","price":18.05,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/aileen-and-roy-up-from-the-sand-hills-to-the-state-house-0595480500","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}