Author Description

This book is written in the style of a series of letters written between friends and relatives. It opens with two friends one in New York and another in Talton Kansas. The the two men are friends and parents and the one in New York wishes to send his son, Leroy Ellerton to the country to recover from rheumatism. The boy travels to Kansas and at first feels as if it is a prison, but grows to like his new surroundings, and his six months stay. There he befriends the daughter of his host and leaves when his six month stay is over. He returns to New York to help his father with the family business. The young woman, Eunice Bronson then travels to New York to pursue her musical studies, they meet there, but then go on their separate ways. She later becomes homesick and returns home. The story ends with Leroy writing his father and telling him he has returned to Kansas to take up a farming life with Eunice. The book has a frontispiece illustration, of the two young people sitting on some rocks looking out into the valley by 'Clara Powers Wilson.'