We are pleased that the North Dakota State University Bookstore offers A Big Challenge for a Little Brother: A Young Horse Helps a Young Boy Grow Up on its shelves and online.

MEET THE AUTHOR

Sylvan Loegering

Sylvan Loegering considers himself a farm boy although he left the farm over 65 years ago.

A Big Challenge for a Little Brother is his way of sharing real-life experiences on a small family farm during the 1940s and 1950s. He is grateful for his life on the farm, a religious upbringing, and great role models in the community.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR'S
FAMILY LIFE

The author and his oldest sister Theresa discuss their family and life on the farm in an August 2010, interview that is part of the archives for Storycorps.org.

Praise for A Big Challenge for a Little Brother

“It was a very interesting story of farm life. I feel it really gives details of life in the 1940s and 1950s, and to the present in life family challenges. I treasured the memories of farm and family life in the 1940s and 1950s.”

—Virginia Vaplon Goerger was born in 1940 and raised on a farm in North Dakota. She was instrumental in preserving and restoring the Bagg Bonanza Farm Historical Site at Mooreton, North Dakota and has been a tour guide there for over 30 years. She is a professional photographer and historian who has lived and worked with the history of farm life. She has published several historical books about farming in the 20th century.