Land of the buffalo bones : the diary of Mary Elizabeth Rodgers, an English girl in Minnesota /
Marion Dane Bauer.
- New York : Scholastic, 2003.
- 217p.
- Dear America .
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.
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