How Long to Read From the Prairies Through the Years

How Long Does it Take to Read From the Prairies Through the Years?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 26 minutes to read From the Prairies Through the Years by Wilda Werner

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Wilda Werner was born in July 1929, just a few months before the stock market and banking crash that precipitated America's Great Depression... to a farmsteading family on the western Kansas plains near Scott City. Her maternal grandfather William Lenihan helped to settle the area after the Homestead Act of 1862, and was himself the child of Irish immigrants who came to America because of Ireland's Potato Famine of the 1840s. Her father, Prosper Minnix, had Scottish and English roots. Together with Wilda's mother, Julia, and Wilda's siblings, Berl and Lilia, he tilled the land, tended livestock and made a go of life alongside other mutually self-reliant pioneer farmers in a "from the prairies" community. Grandpa Lenihan told stories of his cattle clubs, driving mules for the Army, even living in Dodge City briefly, to his rapt young grandchildren, esp. to Wilda. They made it through the Depression not in luxury, yet with enough to eat, a roof, beds, plenty of love and hard work. As the state motto of Kansas, ad astra per aspera, suggests, farm life is work life, sunup to sundown, with play mainly integral to discovery and doing favorite tasks-Wilda recounts her siphoning job from pond to garden, pet lambs, climbing and doing flips in the hay loft, caring for her and her sister's sheep miniflock, and so on. Share in the enlightening and heartwarming story of her ancestors then of the full life she lived, thru the WW2 years, marriage to a dedicated and thoughtful small town doctor, her work in the lab and teaching, gardening, raising similarly resourceful and healthy children, all the challenges and joys. This is Wilda's saga of generations, anecdotes of her ancestors, heirlooms for the heirs.

How long is From the Prairies Through the Years?

From the Prairies Through the Years by Wilda Werner is 258 pages long, and a total of 66,564 words.

This makes it 87% the length of the average book. It also has 81% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read From the Prairies Through the Years Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 3 minutes to read From the Prairies Through the Years aloud.

What Reading Level is From the Prairies Through the Years?

From the Prairies Through the Years is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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