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Prairie girl memoir : growing up on a Dakota farm, whose family had deep roots in German immigrant grandparent's ideas and values / by Inez E. Dockter.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Maitland, FL : Mill City Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: xiii, 133 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781545630655
  • 1545630658
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Contents:
Family roots -- The first five years -- School time -- Farm life -- Church life -- Playtime -- Favorite things -- Homemaking skills -- Favorite foods -- Maxine -- Other losses -- Family dynamics -- Going out on my own.
Summary: As a nine year old, I looked back at the harness to make sure it was secure on Queen, the large work horse who was hitched to a black buggy, before my five year old sister and I got in for the two mile ride home from our one room schoolhouse. My formal education ended at eighth grade. Picking up dried cow (pies) manure for fuel to melt snow for the family's Saturday bath (all using the same water). Seeing buffalo wallow in the pasture while bringing cows home for milking. Picking rocks and setting up grain sheaves in the fields. Butchering hogs for the winter's meat supply. This wasn't the later part of the19th century. It was 1946.
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Biography Dockter, I. D637 Available 33111009698420
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As a nine year old, I looked back at the harness, to make sure it was secure on Queen, the large work horse, who was hitched to a black buggy, before my five year old sister and I got in, for the two mile ride home from our rural one room school house. My formal education ended at eighth grade. Picking up dried cow (pies) manure for fuel, to melt snow on the cook stove, for the families Saturday bath (all used the same water). Seeing buffalo wallows in the pasture while bringing cows home for milking. Picking rocks and setting up grain sheaves in the fields. Butchering hogs for the winter's meat supply. This wasn't the later part of the 19th century...it was 1946.

Family roots -- The first five years -- School time -- Farm life -- Church life -- Playtime -- Favorite things -- Homemaking skills -- Favorite foods -- Maxine -- Other losses -- Family dynamics -- Going out on my own.

As a nine year old, I looked back at the harness to make sure it was secure on Queen, the large work horse who was hitched to a black buggy, before my five year old sister and I got in for the two mile ride home from our one room schoolhouse. My formal education ended at eighth grade. Picking up dried cow (pies) manure for fuel to melt snow for the family's Saturday bath (all using the same water). Seeing buffalo wallow in the pasture while bringing cows home for milking. Picking rocks and setting up grain sheaves in the fields. Butchering hogs for the winter's meat supply. This wasn't the later part of the19th century. It was 1946.

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