Then What Happened Papa is a story about the generation that came to age in WWII, as well as the personal story of a man whose childhood on a Nebraska farm during the Great Depression gave him a deep love for the land and shaped his future as a researcher, educator and international rangeland and agriculture consultant. With humor and maybe a few controversial thoughts, this book reflects both universal themes and cultural uniqueness among people worldwide. It takes you to Iraq, Africa, China, Russia, Australia and other locations spanning the globe. Meet the bellowing Coast Guard Coxswain, King Neptune and the Polywogs, Susie the pet hippo, the "close call" rhino, inventive Aussie gamblers, the Mali Maiden, and American Cowboys hosting Chinese rancher for Western Barbeque, to name just a few, as farm boy finds his calling in a career serving the lands and people of the world.

HAY, HELL, KIDS & CATTLE is a humerous biography interspersed with dowm on the farm philosophy. It is about a boy, one of 16 children, growing up on a dryland farm in Nebraska during the 1903's. The author utilized his prose and sketches by a boyhood neighbor to present a vivid panorama of rural life in Custer County during the drought and depression. It was a critical period in the history of our country. A period that most do not remember, and some would like to forget. This book will make you laugh. It may make you cry abd maybe even a little wiser.