Seizing The Treasure

Did you grow up in the city, or in a small town? Did you ever wonder what it might be like to live on the farm? Wonder no more. Seizing the Treasure: Nuggets of Vaughn-Kilpatrick Story by Marjorie Vaughn-Eldred will bring you up to speed on the joys and struggles of farm life.

Marjorie has gathered family stories written over a period of eight years into this book that will touch and amuse you. You will follow the lives of her parents through the Dust Bowl years in Colorado and Oklahoma. You will follow them to Oregon when the dust forced them to take their young son to a better climate in order to save his life.

You will share their struggles and tensions as they try to wrest a living with a small herd of dairy cows from sage-brush and greasewood covered land in Eastern Oregon. You will meet their children as they explore their world and encounter the challenges of growing up.