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The Powerful, Only Known First-Person Consideration of 1 Woman's Battles and Triumphs Taming the Mississippi Delta Near the end of her life, Mary Mann Hamilton (1866-c.1936) was motivated to record her activities as a female pioneer. The effect is the sole known firsthand profile of a amazing woman thrust into the middle of taming the American South - making it through floods, tornadoes, and fires; facing bears, panthers, and snakes; owning 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. All of this she tackled - and diligently had written about in secrecy, in a diary that not her family understood she stored - while caring for her children, several of whom didn't make it through the perils of pioneer life. The extreme hard work and tragedy Hamilton faced are eclipsed only by her mental and physical power; her unwavering trust in her partner, Frank, a incomprehensible Englishman; and her tenacious sense of excursion. An early draft of Trials of the Earth was posted to a freelance writers' competition sponsored by Little, Dark brown in 1933. It didn't win, and we almost lost the chance to bring this uncooked, stunning narrative to listeners. Eighty-three years later, together with Mary Mann Hamilton's descendants, we're pleased to share an irreplaceable piece of American history. Conveyed in frank and expressive prose by a natural-born article writer, and withheld for nearly an eternity, Trials of the Earth will resonate with listeners of background and fiction likewise - an mental testament to your ability to withstand as well as the story of astonishing love and the allure of pioneer life.
