Review of The Checkered Years: A Bonanza Farm Diary, 1884-88.

Mary Dodge Woodward\u27s keen observations, written in her diaries, serve to recreate days of bonanza farming in the Red River Valley of the North in the 1880s. Mary Dodge Woodward came to the Fargo area to live on a bonanza farm managed by her son Walter. A telescope extended Mary Dodge Woodward\u27s view of the land stretching beyond the farmyard. I stand at the east chamber-which is my observatory- with the spy glass everyday (82)