Readdreamrelax #33 Land of the Buffalo Bones: The Diary of Mary Ann Elizabeth Rodgers, An English Girl in Minnesota, New Yeovil, Minnesota 1873 by Marion Dane Bauer
Summary: "Land of the Buffalo Bones" is the diary of Mary Rodgers, known as Polly. Promising religious freedom and fertile land, Polly's father, Reverend Rodgers, moves their Baptist community from England to the Minnesota prairie. After a treacherous journey across the sea and across this country, Polly finds that it is no paradise at all. Written with incredible heart and compassion, insight and sensitivity, Marion Dane Bauer has created one of the most sophisticated and courageous characters Dear America has seen. From the cover and the summary, I expected for Land of the Buffalo Bones by Marion Dane Bauer to be just like any other travel book so to speak, but I was surprised at the grit and reality written within the pages, as well as numerous hardships that the family has faced in living in Minnesota in the year of 1873 up until 1874. Mary Ann Elizabeth Rodgers and her family moved from Yeovil England to Minnesota in hopes of prosperity, and there might be a ...