Bauer, Marion Dane

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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Frontier and pioneer life--Minnesota--Fiction
Stepfamilies--Fiction
British Americans--Fiction
Freedom of religion--Fiction
Minnesota--History--1858--Fiction
Diaries--Fiction