The Biography of a Prairie Girl

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The Biography of a Prairie Girl is a marvelous way to know on how the prairies were decades before, but you will almost not sense you are taught because you will be drawn in with the young girl, as she grows into a lady distant from some big city. This story will make you move, anxious and delighted together with the young prairie girl.

The inspiring piece consists of these stories: The Coming of the Stork, A Frontier Christening, “Little Boy Blue”, A Pariah of the Prairies, The Misfit Scholar, The Story of a Planting, Twice in Jeopardy, A Harvest Wedding, The Price of Convalescence, “Badgy”, A Trade and a Trick, The Professor’s “Find”, A Race and a Rescue, Hard Times, The Fate of a Crowning Hen, The Reservation Trip, Another Mound on the Bluff, The Little Teacher, and Toward the Rising Sun.

Eleanor Gates was a dramatist who produced 7 dramas that were performed on Broadway. Her most popular was the drama The Poor Little Rich Girl, which was created by her husband in 1913 and lived on to be made as film adaptations for Mary Pickford in 1917 and for Shirley Temple in 1936. Eleanor lived apart from Frederick Moore when they learned they were not officially married.

Eleanor Gates was born on September 26, 1875 in Shakopee, Minnesota, southwest of Minneapolis. She then detailed her younger years in her book The Biography of a Prairie Girl. She remarried a dramatist, Richard Walton Tully, in 1901 after they had both finished their education at the University of California, in Berkeley. She had a career firstly as a writer for a periodical in San Francisco, and drafting books. In 1907, one of her stories was illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Eleanor and Richard got divorced in 1914 because of abandonment, which Eleanor confessed.
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