This booklet includes information on plants, cures, and preparations of herbal treatments used by early pioneers that were taught to them by the Native Americans. It includes natural remedies for ailments ranging from cankersores to lockjaw, along with treatments for indigestion, fever, toothache, eye irritations, coughs and flu. A sourcebook for natural plant remedies.

The author writes: "Dedicated to my grandmother Minnie Susan Decker who used this book second to the Bible in the raising of her twelve children."