![]() ![]() It didn't win, and we almost lost the chance to bring this raw, vivid narrative to readers. ![]() The extreme hard work and tragedy Hamilton faced are eclipsed only by her emotional and physical strength her unwavering faith in her husband, Frank, a mysterious Englishman and her tenacious sense of adventure.Īn early draft of Trials of the Earth was submitted to a writers' competition sponsored by Little, Brown in 1933. All this she tackled-and diligently wrote about in secrecy, in a diary that not even her family knew she kept-while caring for her children, several of whom didn't survive the perils of pioneer life. The result is the only known firsthand account of a remarkable woman thrust into the center of taming the American South-surviving floods, tornadoes, and fires facing bears, panthers, and snakes managing a boardinghouse in Arkansas that was home to an eccentric group of settlers and running a logging camp in Mississippi that blazed a trail for development in the Mississippi Delta. Near the end of her life, Mary Mann Hamilton (1866 - c.1936) was encouraged to record her experiences as a female pioneer. ![]()
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