![]() ![]() ![]() Author of " Becoming Southern" and " The Big Muddy." From Tom’s Reading List Sheilah Hamilton Pantin, great granddaughter of Mary Mann Hamilton.Ĭhristopher Morris, professor of history at the University of Texas, Arlington. Hamilton's posthumous memoir is " Trials of the Earth: The True Story of a Pioneer Woman." Kerry Hamilton, great grandson of Mary Mann Hamilton. This hour On Point, a woman homesteads the Mississippi Delta. Her life was a story of Biblical suffering, labor, loss, fire, flood, isolation, despair – and somehow she lived to 90 and told that story with spirited beauty. Her frontier was the untamed Mississippi Delta. The long-unpublished memoir of Mary Mann Hamilton should set us straight. But just how hard it could be can elude us. We know that settling the American frontier was not all “Westward Ho!” hat-waving and cowboys singing Oklahoma. A portion of the cover of the new release of Mary Mann Hamilton's posthumous frontier memoir, "Trials of the Earth." (Courtesy Little Brown) Facebook Email This article is more than 6 years old.Ī woman’s life on the American Frontier: We’ll open an old memoir of homesteading on the Mississippi Delta. ![]()
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