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My Prairie Year: Based on the Diary of Elenore Plaisted
My Prairie Year Based on the Diary of Elenore Plaisted Author:Brett Harvey In 1889, nine-year-old Elenore Plaisted and her family left their home in Maine to become "homesteaders" in the West. Years later, Elenore wrote down what she remembered about her experiences on the vast prairie of the Dakotas. Her granddaughter, Brett Harvey, has taken her words and shaped them into a story. — The details and drama of ... more »pioneer life -- the "sweet-smelling clothes" that flap in the sun as they dry on washday, the "shining corn silk" with which the children decorate themselves after spring planting, the thrashing machines that "come thundering up to the farm for the harvest," and the raging tornadoes, fires, and blizzards that threaten survival on the prairie -- are authentically depicted here.
Sweeping illustrations enhance this warm narrative and highlight the joys and sorrows of homesteading at the end of the nineteenth century. « less