Twelve year old Sarah Gillespie and her family struggled to make a life for themselves on the Great Plains.
Read her story, and learn about the American frontier from someone who lived on it..
Through it all, Sarah wrote down her experiences in a diary.
Neighbors depended on one another for survival.
Crops and animals needed constant care.
Twelve year old Sarah Gillespie and her family struggled to make a life for themselves on the Great Plains