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‘Trials of the Earth’ Shows the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Pioneer Life

Source: NPR

Born in Arkansas around 1866, Mary Mann Hamilton was one of the first women to homestead in the Mississippi Delta. Critic Maureen Corrigan calls her memoir a historical and literary treasure.

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