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Trials of the Earth: The True Story of a Pioneer Woman

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By: Mary Mann Hamilton (Author)

The Powerful, Only Known First-Person Account of…

Reviews

  1. Kindle Customer –

    A Remarkable Life
    What an amazing story of Mary Mann Hamilton’s life. She was a woman of great strength and fortitude. It is hard to even comprehend the hardships that she went through and woke up to do it all again the next day. To birth babies and lose babies but put it into perspective and keep going. Regardless of being separated from her husband Frank, she always loved him and missed him. In my opinion, she and Frank loved each other very much, and that love included their children. I was sad for her when Frank died and could feel her pain. What amazing children they raised. They worked almost as hard as their parents. As a pioneer, life was a struggle just to have food, water, a roof over your head, and to eke out a living. This story will stay within my heart for a long time!

  2. Kindle Customer –

    Amazing Tale of Pioneering Life by one Brave Woman!
    I have never read an autobiography quite like this and it will stay with me a long time. A marvelous tale of an early settler’s life in the late eighteen hundreds in some of our southern states. It is on the par with the Little House on the Prairie series only for adults. This is one woman’s story written at the end of her life quite by chance wirh encouragement by a neighbor to get her to tell the tales. Children dying, river flooding, moving from place to place, losing everything and starting over, etc. Life was nothing like today when you homesteaded and there was little that was sure. They had grit in those days and the strong survived. Her husband was British and there is a mystery throughout the book as to his origins and past. The scene that I will always remember is Mary sitting in a chair atop a tree stump with infant and young daughter in the pouring rain, as river water slowly crept up her ankles as she waited for rescue. This would appeal to anyone interested in pioneer history as well as historical women’s stories.

  3. RestlessTime –

    Easy but informative read
    This is a true story of a woman living in the 1800’s. How she copes with all the work, grief, and problems amazes me. She relates the loss of children, unending drudgery, and unfulfilled dreams and aspirations with calm acceptance. She has tremendous physical and emotional strength, which is really in short supply today. This should be required reading for all the little snowflakes inhabiting America today.

  4. bam –

    Remarkable first hand account of a life of toilet and quiet heroism
    This is the first hand account of a pioneering woman who lived in the untamed Mississippi Delta during the years of its early development. She married an Englishman with a mysterious background, the story of which he took to the grave. This book tells of the trials, some of them very terrible, endured during their married life as the author, Mary Hamilton, made a home for her family under often trying and sometimes tragic circumstances. Mother of nine, five of whom survived to adulthood, Mary would sadly never have a home that was truly her own, although this was her fondest dream. Instead, she did her very best to make comfortable and happy whatever temporary abode that her family occupied. As a young wife, she ran boarding houses, cooking for dozens of men daily while raising her little children. Later, she kept house for her growing family while working long days in the fields. The amount of work that she performed day in and day out was truly stupendous, but she considered it vital that she be cheerful and uncomplaining for the sake of her children. They all learned at an early age to work alongside their mother, considering helping her something of which they could be very proud. Their hard-working father was often away from home, leaving, of necessity, his wife alone in a wild country to cope with wolves, destructive storms, primitive living conditions, births and deaths. Mary’s indomitable spirit prevailed over circumstances that would have brought paralyzing despair to a lesser woman as she lost child after child, nursed a husband who was often ill during the early years of their marriage, endured poverty, and always, was forced into backbreaking work simply to provide the basic necessities for her family. This unassuming woman’s account of everyday life in a wilderness is remarkable in its rich details, colorful cast of characters, and I lessons for modern life, among them: No more whining!!!!

  5. FourBoyMom –

    Good history lesson; not a page turner though
    An excellent look at pioneering. Like the TRUE stories of Little House on the Prairie. I wish I could give it 3.5 stars. It reads almost like fiction when you account for the numerous trials this family faced. Also, it is almost unfathomable the grit and hard work required to make a living during this time. I’m glad I read the book for that reason. However, I must say it was somewhat of a chore to read. It took me a while to really get into the characters, but I eventually did. I cried when there were deaths. Frank probably had the most dimension of any of the characters. I never quite knew what he was going to do next. I didn’t trust him but did trust him at the same time. I’m sure that’s how Mary felt too. For most of the book it was an endless cycle of move the family, suffer tragedy, move the family, suffer tragedy, and on and on. Also, I did not care for the titles of the chapters as they gave away what was going to happen in that chapter. The ending was really good and made up for some of the tedious middle of the book.

  6. Terra do Milho homestead –

    A book that can learn you a lot about every day life on a homestead.
    I think the book is very pleasant to read. It pictures the life of Mary Mann Hamilton in a very clear way. Her hardships and happy moments. You get an idea how a household of a family 150 years ago worked. All written from this brave woman’s perspective. The family lives in the Mississippi delta most of the time. First as part of the loggers industry, later having their own homestead. They worked very hard.I read the book because I am looking for real live novels about homesteading. I wanted to learn something for our own homestead. and what can you better do then reading novels about the past days. Learning about how people would solve things back in the days. This book fulfilled all my expectations. I will surely recommend this book. A must read when you have a homestead.

  7. Momma Sug –

    Loved this book. Would totally recommend it.

  8. Amazon Kunde –

    This is a very interesting book! I purchased this book because my ancestors come from this area, and I wanted to know more about life in this era. Trials of the Earth certainly gave me incite into these and more questions. It’s also a very exciting ride!

  9. Amazon Customer –

    Best book in 5+ years. Amazing what had to be done just to survive. So glad I live in this era.

  10. Amazon Customer –

    Fantastic book

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