“Childviews—Your Pioneer Art: Pioneer Teacher,” Friend, June 1997, 34
Childviews—
Your Pioneer Art:
Pioneer Teacher
Mary Jane Dilworth Hammond was my great-great-great-grandma. As a pioneer in Council Bluffs, Iowa, she taught some children their ABCs by writing with charcoal on the tailgates of wagons. Brigham Young saw her and asked her to teach young children when she reached the valley. Someday I would like to be a schoolteacher like Mary. Our classrooms will be very different. Imagine—going from wagon tailgate to computers!
Illustrated by Kristie Gunderson