Sarah Herrmann arrived at her new home in the Minnesota Territory in the spring of 1856. Sarah began a journal during her travel from Ohio to Minnesota and continued to write of her life for many more years. Her first friend in Minnesota was New Moon, a Dakota girl who lived on a reservation near the Herrmann homestead. Sarah's early gifts to New Moon were papers for her drawings and a notebook to write about her life. This book contains some of the notebook entries of both girls describing their lives before, during and after the Minnesota Conflict of 1862.