Reminiscence of Mr. Brey concerning his parents, Warren and Amelia Brey, who came in 1901 to Surrey, N.D. from northern Indiana to homestead. It recounts the early years of farming, other family members who also homesteaded, his own homesteading in 1917 on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, and his views on the changes from the early twentieth century to 1967, including critical comments on William Langer