Pioneer Girl: A True Story of Growing Up on the PrairiePioneer Girl is the true story of Grace McCance Snyder. In 1885, when Grace was three, she and her family became homesteaders on the windswept prairie of central Nebraska. They settled into a small sod house and hauled their water in barrels. Together they endured violent storms, drought, blizzards, and prairie fires. Despite the hardships and dangers, Grace loved her life on the prairie. Weaving Grace?s story into the history of America?s heartland, award-winning author Andrea Warren writes not just of one spirited girl but of all the children who homesteaded with their families in the late 1800s, sharing the heartbreaks and joys of pioneer life. |
Contents
Introduction | 9 |
A Home in the Promised Land | 11 |
Settling In | 17 |
Getting By | 22 |
Fire and Wind | 29 |
Sunup to Sundown | 34 |
Pioneer Women | 40 |
Blizzards and Grasshoppers | 47 |
The Storm | 60 |
Hard Times | 66 |
Grace Grows Up | 73 |
The Quilt Lady of Nebraska | 82 |
Afterword | 90 |
For Further Information | 97 |
Acknowledgments and Photo Credits | 99 |
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