<p>This easy-to-enjoy book is the author&rsquo;s heart-warming story about growing up on a farm in Oklahoma struggling to get a high school education and eventually becoming a successful dress designer. Altha Earnest writes about the days of quilting parties singing conventions and one-room schools. But <em>From the Prairie to the Mountains</em> is not just about the past it is all about mid-twentieth century New Mexico World War II and Mrs. Earnest&rsquo;s famous Birdwatcher Shop in Santa Fe New Mexico and her career as a designer of Southwestern clothes.</p>