The Prairie Wife is a 1915 novel by Arthur Stringer, told through dated sections. It follows a woman's life on the prairie and the challenges of pioneer domesticity. It is worth hearing for its intimate voice and its portrait of settler life.
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Cover of the original edition (Project Gutenberg, public domain).
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Opening of the book
The Prairie Wife
I stooped over the trap-door and lifted it up. "Get down there quick!" — Page 109, The Prairie Wife.
THE PRAIRIE WIFE
By ARTHUR STRINGER
With Frontispiece in Color by
H. T. DUNN
A. L. BURT COMPANY
PUBLISHERS – – NEW YORK
Published by Arrangement with The Bobbs, Merrill Company
Copyright 1915 The Curtis Publishing Company Copyright 1915 The Bobbs-Merrill Company TO VAN WHO KNOWS AND LOVES THE WEST AS WE LOVE HIM! Contents Thursday the Nineteenth Saturday the Twenty-first Monday the Twenty-third Wednesday the Twenty-fifth Thursday the Twenty-sixth Saturday the Twenty-eighth Wednesday the First Thursday the Second Friday the Third Saturday the Fourth Monday the Sixth Wednesday the Eighth Saturday the Tenth Sunday the Eleventh Monday the Twelfth Sunday the Eighteenth Monday the Nineteenth Tuesday the Twentieth Thursday the Twenty-second
Saturday the Twenty-fourth Tuesday the Twenty-seventh Thursday the Twenty-ninth Friday the Fifth Sunday the Seventh Tuesday the Ninth Saturday the Twenty-first Sunday the Twenty-ninth Monday the Seventh Friday the Eleventh Sunday the Thirteenth Wednesday the Sixteenth Sunday the Twentieth Sunday the Twenty-seventh Wednesday the Thirtieth Thursday the Thirty-first Sunday the Third Thursday the Seventh Saturday the Ninth Monday the Eleventh Tuesday the Nineteenth Sunday the Thirty-first Tuesday the Ninth Wednesday the Seventeenth Thursday the Twenty-fifth Tuesday the Second Thursday the Fourth Wednesday the Seventeenth Saturday the Twenty-seventh Tuesday the Sixth Monday the Twelfth Tuesday the Twentieth Monday the Twenty-sixth
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