The Prairie Wife
Arthur Stringer tells this story entirely through the diary of Chaddie McKail, a lively, well-traveled young woman who marries a Scottish-Canadian engineer and finds herself keeping house on a lonely prairie ranch. Cut off from the society she knew, she meets isolation, hard weather, and the daily grind of frontier life with humor and stubborn spirit, recording her marriage’s small joys and real strains as she goes. Stringer captures both the beauty and the loneliness of the open plains, and his heroine’s frank, funny voice keeps the pages turning. It became the first book of a popular trilogy about her life. This free PDF and EPUB edition carries her whole journal from first entry to last.
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| # | Chapter | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thursday the Nineteenth | 18:41 | |
| 2 | Saturday the Twenty-first | 20:03 | |
| 3 | Monday the Twenty-third | 9:43 | |
| 4 | Wednesday the Twenty-fifth | 7:51 | |
| 5 | Thursday the Twenty-sixth | 9:48 | |
| 6 | Saturday the Twenty-eighth, Wednesday the First & Thursday the Second | 11:18 | |
| 7 | Friday the Third, Saturday the Fourth & Monday the Sixth | 13:37 | |
| 8 | Wednesday the Eighth & Saturday the Tenth | 13:00 | |
| 9 | Sunday the Eleventh, Monday the Twelfth, Sunday the Eighteenth & Monday the Nineteenth | 14:48 | |
| 10 | Tuesday the Twentieth | 10:34 | |
| 11 | Thursday the Twenty-second | 5:18 | |
| 12 | Saturday the Twenty-fourth & Tuesday the Twenty-seventh | 15:42 | |
| 13 | Thursday the Twenty-ninth, Friday the Fifth, Sunday the Seventh, Tuesday the Ninth & Saturday the Twenty-first | 17:41 | |
| 14 | Sunday the twenty-ninth to Wednesday the Thirtieth | 9:08 | |
| 15 | Thursday the Thirty-first | 8:10 | |
| 16 | Sunday the Third to Monday the Eleventh | 15:13 | |
| 17 | Tuesday the Nineteenth to Tuesday the Sixth | 14:45 | |
| 18 | Monday the Twelfth to Tuesday the Tenth | 18:18 | |
| 19 | Monday the Sixteenth to Saturday the Twenty-ninth | 18:00 | |
| 20 | Sunday the Thirtieth to Sunday the Thirteenth | 13:51 | |
| 21 | Monday the Twenty-eighth to Wednesday the Thirteenth | 18:25 | |
| 22 | Thursday the fourteenth to Wednesday the Nineteenth | 11:27 | |
| 23 | Friday the Twenty-first | 15:24 | |
| 24 | Monday the Twelfth to Friday the Sixteenth | 18:44 | |
| 25 | Sunday the Eighteenth to Sunday the First | 10:09 |
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