TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dockter,Inez E.
TI  - Prairie girl memoir: growing up on a Dakota farm, whose family had deep roots in German immigrant grandparent's ideas and values 
SN  - 9781545630655
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Maitland, FL
PB  - Mill City Press
KW  - Dockter, Inez E.
KW  - Farm life
KW  - North Dakota
KW  - Biography
KW  - German Americans
KW  - Russian Germans
KW  - United States
KW  - Venturia (N.D.)
KW  - McIntosh County (N.D.)
KW  - Autobiographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -