The author shares a touching story of his maternal grandparents, Jacob and Justina Friesen, through the sufferings of war and famine in Russia to their hard toil in forcing a living out of the dust bowl soil of western Canada during the "dirty thirties." Jacob Friesen (1898-1985) and Justina Warkentin (1896-1967) had fourteen children who intermarried with Biehn, Broadfoot, Derbecker, Derstine, Dyck, Grove, Hansen, Roth, Visser, and Weber. (202pp. illus. index. Author, 1998.)