Conveyed in frank and expressive prose by a natural-born writer, and withheld for almost a lifetime, Trials of the Earth will resonate with readers of history and fiction alike-an emotional testament to our ability to endure, as well as the story of extraordinary love and the allure of pioneer life. Mary Mann Hamilton’s story, Trials of the Earth: The True Story of a Pioneer Woman (Little, Brown, 314 pp., out of four stars), which she wrote more than 80 years ago and which is. Eighty-three years later, in partnership with Mary Mann Hamilton's descendants, we're proud to share an irreplaceable piece of American history. DiscussionQuestionsforMaryMannHamilton’sTRIALSOFTHEEARTH 1.
It didn't win, and we almost lost the chance to bring this raw, vivid narrative to readers. Mary Hamilton writes of searing hardships, wild joys and the unthinkable work it took to survive in her day in the wilderness of the primitive Mississippi. An early draft of Trials of the Earth was submitted to a writers' competition sponsored by Little, Brown in 1933. 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. 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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