A Journey of Voices: Stewards of the Land

Author: Diane McAdams Gladow

ISBN 978-1-62137-0-758 (softcover)

349 pages

A Journey of Voices: Stewards of the Land is the second book in Diane McAdams Gladow’s nonfiction series about common, ordinary families who lived American History and in some cases helped to make it. This book tells the story of the Crume family by interweaving old letters, pictures, land documents, Bible records, and historical references with an account of the family’s life and movement through seven generations. The story of this family is truly the story of American history from 1746 to 1946 and the story of American agricultural life and how it changed over two hundred years. Whether flatboating in the frigid winter weather down the Ohio River, building homes in the wilderness, fighting in the American Revolution, enduring the Civil War in a border state, dealing with Indians in Texas, surviving the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl, and experiencing the misery and uncertainty of two world wars, this family lived it all. Come see America’s history through their eyes and voices as they struggle to build lives on the land in a bold new country. 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR 

Diane McAdams Gladow is a former English Composition instructor at Emporia State University in Emporia, Kansas. During her nine years at the university, she also served as a director of the Writing Center on campus and was the voice of the Grammar Hotline, a telephone service from which the public could obtain answers to English grammar questions. After leaving the University, she taught adult basic skills at the Adult Education Center in Emporia. For almost twenty years, she was a coordinator for the Emporia Literacy Program. She has authored two other books, one a memoir of her husband’s family, Rich Heritage and the other the first book in the A Journey of Voices series, Chasing the Frontier. She enjoys family research, traveling, and reading among her collection of hobbies. She was born and raised in New Mexico, graduated from the University of Texas at El Paso, and obtained a Master’s Degree from the University of New Mexico. She and her husband live in Emporia, Kansas, and have three grown children and five grandchildren. She is currently working on the next volume in the A Journey of Voices series.