Born May 30, 1906 on a rented farm located north of Sand Creek in Indian Territory, Alta F. Brean describes her childhood in the Oklahoma hills and in the New Mexico portion of the "Staked Plain", where her family lived, 1914-1918. Five months after her father died in 1919, Brean's family moved to Arizona. Brean's reminiscences end with her marriage May, 1924.