No Time On My Hands SIGNED

by Grace Snyder, Nellie Snyder Yost

A memoir of the later days of frontier life at the turn of the 19th century and early 20th century and beyond. Signed by Nellie Snyder Yost.

541 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1982

About the author

Grace Bell McCance Snyder was an American quilter, former pioneer and centenarian. She went to Nebraska with her parents in 1885 to homestead in a sod house in Custer County. She had nine siblings. As a small child, she pieced quilt blocks while tending the family's cows

McCance married Bert Snyder in 1903 and lived on a ranch forty miles (70 km) northwest of North Platte, where they raised four children: Nellie, Miles, Billie, and Bertie.

The relatively isolated ranch life gave her ample time for quilting, and she became nationally recognized for the skill and complexity of her quilts. The Congress of Quilters Hall of Fame in Arlington, Virginia, inducted her in 1980, as did the Nebraska Quilters Hall of Fame in 1986.

Grace made 300 quilts over her 100 years of life. She died in her sleep. She is remembered by her own memoir All Roads Lead West Bound Set. Her story is told in the children's biography Pioneer Girl: Growing Up on the Prairie by Andrea Warren (Morrow Junior Books, 1998).