Title: The story of my childhood, written for my children
Description: This brief autobiography written for the author's children and illustrated with photographs pays particular attention to children's activities and education in mid- nineteenth-century Minnesota. George describes the journey her family made when she was an infant from Indiana to Le Sueur County, Minnesota, and reminisces about her childhood in the villages of Ottawa and Le Sueur, where her father became a partner in a family-owned sawmill. After the Sioux uprising in 1862, in which many settlers in the region were killed, the family moved to Rapidan, in Blue Earth County (south of Mankato), onto land made available by the forced removal of the Winnebago Indians. In the course of the book George describes how sawmills of the time operated, provides information about local animals and plants, and recalls her early experiences with Indians.
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life
Places: Minnesota