Project Gutenberg 2009-05-29 Public domain in the USA. 72 Gates, Eleanor 1875 1951 The Biography of a Prairie Girl Reading ease score: 75.0 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. Produced by Peter Vachuska, Chuck Greif, Emmy and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net "The Biography of a Prairie Girl" by Eleanor Gates is a novel written in the early 20th century. The story centers on a young girl growing up on a Dakota farm and explores her experiences, relationships, and the challenges she faces within the frontier setting. The narrative paints a vivid picture of prairie life and family dynamics, particularly focusing on the little girl's interactions with her brothers and mother. The opening of the book introduces the main character, a little girl, as she contemplates the arrival of the stork that brought her into the world during a fierce winter storm. This event sets the stage for her early life on the farm, marked by the love and attention of her three older brothers and her mother's efforts to keep the family together during hardships. The family eagerly anticipates naming the girl after her birth, but their plans are complicated by tragedy and the relentless demands of frontier life. As the little girl grows, the narrative promises to explore her journey through childhood, heartache, and the process of finding her identity within the constraints of her environment. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Family life -- Fiction Girls -- Fiction Farm life -- Fiction Great Plains -- Fiction Frontier and pioneer life -- Dakota Territory -- Fiction PZ PS Text Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: History - American Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 463692 463694 2024-10-12T12:36:11.876197 2023-09-13T04:11:44.385702 text/html text/html 467019 2021-01-05T03:50:46 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 172841 2021-01-05T03:50:46 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 259294 2024-10-12T12:36:22.668113 application/epub+zip 263620 2024-10-12T12:36:15.917144 application/epub+zip 251311 2024-10-12T12:36:14.144142 application/epub+zip 458171 2024-10-12T12:36:27.368105 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 416050 2024-10-12T12:36:21.413104 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 377704 2022-09-13T12:31:05.020868 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 423785 423679 2024-10-12T12:36:10.719202 2023-09-13T04:11:43.477175 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 423572 2021-01-05T03:50:46 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 160663 2021-01-05T03:50:46 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 423569 2021-01-05T03:50:46 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 160636 2021-01-05T03:50:46 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 22924 2024-10-12T12:36:27.800084 application/rdf+xml 13039 2024-10-12T12:36:14.946155 image/jpeg 3247 2024-10-12T12:36:14.500157 image/jpeg 240201 2024-10-12T12:36:11.922178 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia