Dear America: Land of the Buffalo Bones: The Diary of Mary Ann Elizabeth Rodgers, An English Girl in Minnesota

Description:

"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.

subjects: British Americans,  Frontier and pioneer life,  Stepfamilies,  Diaries,  Minnesota,  Fiction,  Freedom of religion,  History,  Juvenile fiction,  Children's fiction,  Frontier and pioneer life, fiction,  Family, fiction,  Minnesota, fiction,  Diaries, fiction

Places: Minnesota

Times: 1873-