Never Look Back

The Bible tells the story of Lot’s wife, who, looking back to the home she was leaving, was transformed into a pillar of salt. This is the story of a pioneer mother of Western Kansas taking an invalid husband and two daughters, one a babe in arms, to a homestead in a strange land, who never found time to look back. Although it is the personal history of the author’s parents, it could with variations, be applied to thousands of other pioneers, who, braving the loneliness and dangers of a strange, harsh land; built homes, schools and churches; fought prairie fires and the scourges of drought and grasshoppers; but never lost faith in God, country, or their own ability to cope with disaster.