The exciting true story of Grace McCance and her family, who settled on the lonely, windswept prairie of central Nebraska in a one-room house, shows their struggle to survive crop-destroying pests, deadly winter blizzards, and summertime droughts. Grace McCance was three when her family settled in a one-room sod house on the lonely Nebraska prairie. There was hard work for everyone, the nearest water source was two miles away, and disaster could strike at any time in the form of a tornado, a drought, or a rattlesnake bite. Still, Grace thrived amid the dusty soil of the American heartland -- "I couldn't have asked for a more wonderful life".