Someday I'll Have a Bicycle!

Download or read book Someday I'll Have a Bicycle! written by Deane Knight and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2003-04-08 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Someday I'll have a bicycle!" is the nostalgic and triumphant story of the struggles and deprivation of a family who lived in the devastated area of Oklahoma and Kansas during the decades of the 20s and 30s. Beginning life in Sallisaw Oklahoma in 1921 and continuing up north to Coffeyville Kansas, the author reminisces about her family's difficulties as they labor to stay afloat and avoid applying for "relief". The story also includes the life and times of that era and evokes memories of bank and crop failures, "Hoovervilles" and the Roosevelt recovery, the thirties gangster era in which infamous men and women robbed banks and killed countless innocent people. She also tells of the trek out west from the Oklahoma dust bowl on Route 66, and calls to mind Model T Fords, radio comedy and big bands, primitive plumbing, doing laundry on a wash board and many other recollections of those memorable years.