Marion Dane Bauer

Fourteen-year-old Polly Rodgers keeps a diary of her 1873 journey from England to Minnesota as part of a colony of eighty people seeking religious freedom, and of their first year struggling to make a life there, led by her father, a Baptist minister.

The Diary of Mary Ann Elizabeth Rodgers, an English Girl in Minnesota

Land of the Buffalo Bones

Jeni Enjaian

A review from my old blog...

(A review of the Dear America series)
I have always been intrigued by the Dear America series and the style that all of these books written by a diverse crop of authors strives to achieve... the diary or journal (whichever term one prefers).

Even though these stories are fictional and written by women or men living in the twentieth/twenty-first century I like the idea of taking a peek into the life of a girl that would in normal circumstances never have come into the mind of scholars of the time period or normal people today.

I really enjoyed the book and strongly recommend it.

Land of the Buffalo Bones The Diary of Mary Ann Elizabeth Rodgers, an English Girl in Minnesota

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