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In Sod and Stubble, sometimes controversial Kansas University Professor John Ise uses the experiences of his own family as early homesteaders in Osborne County, from 1870 to the turn of the century, to let readers in on what it was like to live in such a world.   Fires, picnics, draughts, parties, insect infestations, bumper crops, poverty, prosperity, births, and deaths – all were part of the everyday lives of his family and their friends.

All who have read this expanded edition of the original 1936 novel, which includes detailed annotations and four recently discovered chapters, agree that it reveals the true nature of a Kansas pioneer family and their struggles in establishing themselves on the Great Plains.