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Aileen and Roy

Aileen and Roy

Aileen and Roy

Mary Cochran Grimes

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2008
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9780595480500
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Aileen and Roy is the story of the author’s parents, Roy Cochran, who rosefrom a sod house on a hard-scrabble farm in western Nebraska to the statehouse in Lincoln as governor, and his wife, Aileen Gantt Cochran, a pioneerteacher and superintendent of schools in the Nebraska sand hills. RoyCochran’s three terms as governor (1935-41) covered the most critical yearsin the history of the West, when the population was ravaged by drought andthe Great Depression and new state-federal programs-social security, theWPA-were coming into being. Aileen Gantt grew up in the small town ofNorth Platte at the end of the 19th century and supported her widowedmother and siblings as a teacher and county school superintendent. Theirstory, drawn from unpublished memoirs and family letters, provides a uniqueand intimate picture of life in a small western town around the turn of thecentury. It is also the story of two remarkable people who faced the challengeof governing in a time of despair and change.

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