There are light moments too – when her student does not return from the outhouse, she finds him frozen to the seat she sleeps with her bag of potatoes so they don’t freeze solid the beauty of the land AND she meets the love of her life. She stands up to the School Board for what she knows is the right thing to do. When she takes in two orphaned Indian children and puts them in school, she receives strong backlash and threats of expulsion from her post. She encounters hardship, poverty and racism between the settlers and the native population.
It is the memoir of 19 year-old Ann, who travels by mule train to the Village of Chicken to teach in 1927. The issue of racism that is weaved throughout her adventure still resonates today.
This book was well worth a re-read in 2021. They loved it and then shared it with my aunt, who had taught in a one-room schoolhouse like the author. I enjoyed it so much I lent it to my parents. I read this book, published in 1976, for the first time over 25 years ago.
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