<p>&shy;This story is unusual but true - as told by those who lived overlapping lives with those who were eyewitnesses. &shy;The story is about the lives of four generations of ancestors beginning in old Europe and then coming to America in the 1800&rsquo;s with a wave of other immigrants. &shy;They moved westward, lured by the promise of homesteads. &shy;They became the last of the pioneers as they reached the wilderness frontiers of Canada and the far West. &shy;They were held back by the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression but escaped to something better in California.</p>