For some time we have had accounts written by men of the early years in a new state; then women\u27s diaries began to be discovered recording events from a woman\u27s perspective. With this book, we now have a sense of what it was like to be a teenager who had moved from New York or Iowa into a prairie land with little broken ground and no fences. A Funnie Place adds an important dimension to both our historical and sociological understanding of daily life on the Kansas Plains