Mary Dodge Woodward, a fifty-six-year-old widow, moved from
Wisconsin with her two grown sons and a daughter to a 1,500-acre
bonanza wheat farm in Dakota Territory's Red River valley in 1882.
For five years she recorded the yearly farm cycle of plowing and
harvesting as well as the frustrations of gardening and raising
chickens, the phenomenon of mirages on the plains, the awesome
blizzard of 1888, her reliance on her family, and her close
relationship with her daughter. She noted "blots, mistakes, joys,
and sorrows" in her "olf friend." This Borealis edition brings back
to print a valuable record of a frontier woman's life.
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