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This is written as the diary of a pioneer woman, Sarah Prine, traveling with her family through the Arizona Territory from 1881 to 1901. I admit I didn't get far in. Diary format is pretty tricky. It can come across as rather thin and depends on a strong voice. As you can tell from the very title, this is one of those books that uses deliberate misspellings and grammatical infelicities (and no quotes to offset dialogue) in an attempt to create that voice. Sometimes doing this--my recent read, th
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Jul 27, 2011
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This book surprised me. It actually has a lot of action and I found myself caught up in the narrators words. It begins with seventeen-year-old Sarah Prine's family on the move through the western territories to settle in a new place in Texas. Dissater seems to follow the three or four families as they head for greener pastures and eventually what is left of the family joins a wagon train to return close to their original settlement.
Part adventure, part love-story, part historical fiction, titch ...more
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Jun 29, 2012
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Thiis book is riveting! A tragic look at the life of a pioneer woman and her family, that is beset by indians,disease, injury, rape, and snake bite! They perservere and prosper, but it is the first book of a trilogy so who knows what will happen next!
