This is a book that should be read by all Americans The author, Edith Eudora Ammons Kohl, not only participated in the difficult, perilous settling of America's West, but she also captured the sights, sounds and events involved in her book, "The Sodbreakers." Her writings are priceless, historic depictions. Thanks to her writing style in "The Sodbreakers," you will have a greater appreciation for the personal sacrifice, hard work and suffering she and other homesteaders endured in settling the West. Her craft of words paints images as if you are actually present to witness the exciting, dangerous, often sad, events as they actually unfolded.