The Prairie Wife, Mother and Child: A Trilogy By Arthur Stringer The Prairie Wife (1915) Chaddie and Duncan McKail, a young married couple, try to make their life on the Great Plains as wheat farmers but they are beset by disease, accidents and failing crops. They live in isolation with their hopes and a dream. But when Person Benson moves close by, nothing is the same again. The Prairie Mother (1920) Sequel to The Prairie Wife, about life on the Prairie a century ago. The Prairie Child (1922) The diary of a homemaker living on the prairie whose husband cheats on her and files for divorce as she struggles to keep her family together.