Dust Clouds and Mud Puddles

Dust Clouds and Mud Puddles; Hardships and Triumphs of an Immigrant Family is an historical fiction book that spans four generations of an Austro-Hungarian immigrant family. After arriving in America, the family settled on a farm in Kansas. This book tells about their life on the prairie and stresses their German heritage. The book emphasizes their trials during the difficult years of the Dust Bowl and their eventual successes. It follows the family from the early 1900s until the Second World War.
The family immigrated to America in this author’s previous book, Mud Poppers and Leaf Whistles, Journey of a Young Austrian Immigrant. That book tells about their harrowing trip to America.
During the sixty-two years that Ellis Island was open, more than 2.2 million people from the Austro-Hungarian Empire immigrated to America. Millions of their descendents now reside in America and remember similar experiences.