Foundation Books Catalog

Bloody Mary: Gentle Woman
Frances G. Reinehr, author
ISBN 0-934988-16-1
104 pages, softcover, photos, time line, published 1989, $9.95

Biographical narrative about Mary Ann Partington (1889-1979) who endured 20 years of harassment while living alone in her father's house. Arson, theft, threats, imprisonment, shootings and death were all part of the torment this retired Lincoln, Nebraska, teacher resisted and endured for her independence.

"The reading aroused in me once more the anger I felt in the mid-1960s when this poor woman was harassed almost nightly until she finally was pushed beyond the limits of her endurance, with two tragic results." -- Sunday Journal-Star

Dad's Memories

32 pages, spiral binding with photograph pouch, $6.95

Great Gift for Dad or from Dad to the family. Simple questions guide Dad through basic genealogical questions and then branch out into general open ended questions about his youth, jobs, courtship and memories of his parents and even his own children. Makes a nice keepsake of stories for the family.

Doc Graham: Sandhills Doctor
Duane Hutchinson, author
ISBN 0-934988-26-9
160 pages, softcover, photos, second edition 1995, $8.95

The stories of family doctor W. W. Graham (1894-1967) are retold by friend and storyteller Duane Hutchinson. Doc Graham loved the sandhills and he loved the people of the sandhills. Storytelling made the hours pass during a confinement vigil or waiting for a fever to break in a remote farmhouse. This pattern of hurry and wait, hurry and wait, enabled Doc to hone his yarns to perfection.

". . . Any person who has lived in a small town or for that matter persons who have always lived in the city since the '30s will enjoy this book." -- Lincoln Sunday Journal and Star

Evelene: The Troubleshooter Was a Lady
Elizabeth J. Tremain, author
ISBN 0-934988-28-5
202 pages, softcover, photos, bibliography, index, second edition published 1992, $9.95

The remarkable story of Nebraska native, Evelene Brodstone, who became one of the highest paid salaried women in the business world by the 1920s. The author uses personal experiences, interviews, letters, diaries and newspaper clippings to tell this "rags to riches" story of world traveller Lady Evelene Brodstone Vestey.

Frontier Nebraska: Stories of Hardship and Triumph from Boone County in the 1870s
Stephen K. Hutchinson, compiler
ISBN 0-934988-38-2
504 pages, index, photos, casebound, published 1998, $29.95

Stories of well accidents, blizzards, grasshoppers, lightning strikes, thunderstorms, robberies, romance, harvesting peat moss, settlement, Indians, religion, social life, trapping, prairie fires, cave-ins, drought and murder in the 1870s are among the stories included in this one-of-a-kind collection.

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