These is my Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 (P.S.) (1998)

by Nancy Turner

Series: Sarah Agnes Prine (1)

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melissarochelle | Apr 14, 2013 |

The start of this book did remind me an awful lot of Sandra Dallas book: The Diary of Mattie Spenser which was written a decade before in 1998 and is one of my favorites. I really enjoyed this book though although a lot of sad things happen in the book and I even cried (one tear only!) lol.

Discovered there is a book 2 and 3 so I really want to read those 2 as well. (

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sally906 | Apr 3, 2013 |

I was with a librarian friend when she bought this book, and told me she'd read it 3 times. That is high praise indeed from a librarian! I really enjoyed it, though I'm thankful I didn't live in the Arizona Territory in the 1880s. I wouldn't have lasted a week! (

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wwrawson | Mar 31, 2013 |

A diary of Sarah Prine a young woman who travels to Texas and Arizona in the 1880s. The book is full of the struggles, hardships, love and family a frontier woman might have. I wasn’t sure that I would like this book. I read a lot of historical fiction, but the idea of this being a diary turned me off. It was a good story and I felt for Sarah through all her struggles. I think the story really shows that you can make it through anything. This book makes me want to read some non-fiction about this time period in the Arizona Territories to see how historically accurate it was. I think any book that makes me want to read about history must be a great one. (

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Series (with order)

Sarah Agnes Prine (1)

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1998

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Arizona, USA (as Arizona Territory)

Texas, USA

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One Book Arizona (2008)

Arizona Author Award

Willa Cather Award (finalist)

Shortlisted for Arizona Reads Prize

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For everyone who has ever stood alone on a hill in a storm

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A storm is rolling in, and that always makes me a little sad and wistful so I got it in my head to set to paper all these things that have got us this far on our way through this heathen land.

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No one can eat. We have drank our tears for food.

I am making a rag rug with scraps the Maldonados gave me from all their children’s old worn out clothes. I told them what a happy rug it would be as it carries all the children’s laughter with it

It seems as if I can only think if I write my journal, it just connects the part of my head that is busy doing things with the part that is busy thinking about everything else.

... our home is Arizona Territory. There’s too much blood spilt on that land to leave it. It costs to live there, and we’ve both paid a price.

Now he is back, and I feel like my arm or something has been missing and now is returned to me. It is a hard feeling to describe, it is like the smell after a rain, and a paper journal will not hold the feeling of it.

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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0061458031, Paperback)

A moving, exciting, and heartfelt American saga inspired by the author's own family memoirs, these words belong to Sarah Prine, a woman of spirit and fire who forges a full and remarkable existence in a harsh, unfamiliar frontier. Scrupulously recording her steps down the path Providence has set her upon—from child to determined young adult to loving mother—she shares the turbulent events, both joyous and tragic, that molded her, and recalls the enduring love with cavalry officer Captain Jack Elliot that gave her strength and purpose.

Rich in authentic everyday details and alive with truly unforgettable characters, These Is My Words brilliantly brings a vanished world to breathtaking life again.

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Contains the fictional journal of Sarah Prine, in which she records the events of her life in the Arizona Territories from 1881 to 1901, as a child, a fiery young woman, and a caring mother.

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