One Pioneer Woman's Story Of Life On The Mississippi Delta (Tom Ashbrook, On Point)

We know that settling the American frontier was not all “Westward Ho!” hat-waving and cowboys singing Oklahoma. But just how hard it could be can elude us. The long-unpublished memoir of Mary Mann Hamilton should set us straight. Her frontier was the untamed 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. This hour On Point, a woman homesteads the Mississippi Delta. — Tom Ashbrook
Interview:
http://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2016/07/14/trials-of-the-earth-memoir