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. |
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User Review - nancynova - LibraryThingBased on a homestead girl's diary as well as interviews with the woman in her later years, this book outlines what it was like to be part of a homestead family living on the Prairie in Nebraska. The ... Read full review
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User Review - KirkusWarren, basing her work on the memoir of Grace McCance Snyder about her pioneer childhood in Nebraska, also tells the riveting story of life on the prairie and the determination of the families who ... Read full review
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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Bibliographic information
| Title | Pioneer Girl: A True Story of Growing Up on the Prairie |
| Contributor | Andrea Warren |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | U of Nebraska Press, 2009 |
| ISBN | 0803225261, 9780803225268 |
| Length | 104 pages |
| Subjects | › › › Biography & Autobiography / Historical Biography & Autobiography / Women History / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) Juvenile Fiction / Biographical / United States |
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