Stumpps With Deep Roots: A True Life Novel

By Kay Stumpp Shurtliff

Ayoung girl stands beside her mother's casket. Thus begins the revised Stumpp family novel. Bill Stumpp is an easygoing Wyoming sheep herder/farmer, a fun-loving Jack Mormon. From Georgetown, Idaho Jeanette Tippets is a stern Mormon girl. Her heart's desire is a godly mate and an L.D.S. temple marriage. But passions flame, and he can make her laugh. Bill wins Jeanette's heart, and Stumpps With Deep Roots takes root. The babies start coming. Deep Roots tells of John and Anna (Krebs) Stumpp, German immigrants, who struggle to find their place in America. Jeanette's father, Joseph Tippets, as a young husband, is shot in the chest but lives to father 14 children. Meet the aunts, uncles and cousins. In the 1930s, hard times hit America and the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) move into Star Valley. Bill learns what it's like to work for the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and agonizes when he must rent out his beloved horses. This is an era where a good team of horses can make or break a farmer. Wyoming temperatures plunge to minus 40, and the snow gets deep. Stock still must be taken care of. Daily life means coal oil lamps are lit, ditch water is packed, a coal bucket is filled, wood is chopped and kindling shaved. No matter how hard you work, drought hits, and you pray for rain. Then there are sick kids, chamber pots, and outhouses. Lots of dirt and maybe a weekly bath in the galvanized wash tub. A world of scrub boards, clotheslines and contagious diseases. And kids-lots of kids.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1514600986
• ISBN13: 9781514600986
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 452 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.0" x 6.0"