Fourteen-year-old Polly Rodgers keeps a diary of her 1873 journey from England to Minnesota as part of a colony of eighty people seeking religious freedom, and of their first year struggling to make a life there, led by her father, a Baptist minister.
year: 2003
call number/section: 1000
subjects: frontier and pioneer life, minnesota, fiction, stepfamilies, british americans, freedom of religion, diaries, minnesota, history, 1858-, fiction