The Checkered Years: A Bonanza Farm Diary, 1884-88 Robert S. Hallett as well as background on

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The Checkered Years: A Bonanza Farm Diary, 1884-88 Robert S. Hallett as well as background onMary Dodge Woodward, a fifty six year old widow, moved from Wisconsin with her two grown sons and a daughter to a 1,500 acre bonanza wheat farm in Dakota Territory's Red River valley in 1882. For five years she recorded the yearly farm cycle of plowing and harvesting as well as the frustrations of gardening and raising chickens, the phenomenon of mirages on the plains, the awesome blizzard of 1888, her reliance on her family, and her close