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1) Never let go
Author
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Sacrificing dreams and risking family, five women follow their husbands to an isolated Minnesota settlement. Struggling to survive, they develop resilience but none are prepared for the challenges they face when starving bands of Santee Sioux (Dakota) take up arms against the whites during the 1862 Dakota Conflict. Laura Duley left Indiana as a newlywed. Promised a perfect life, she endured years on the hostile frontier and the loss of family only...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
“Six Weeks in the Sioux Tepees” is a reprint of the classic narrative of Sarah Wakefield's survival. Told in her own words, this compelling tale was a best seller when it was originally published more than one hundred years ago. Today it offers readers a unique perspective on Sioux culture and what life was like on the Great Plains in mid-nineteenth-century America.
Author
Publisher
The Write Place
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
The Big Woods is based on a true story. Willie Meyer, a Minnesota farmer, becomes Corporal W.L.T. Meyer, Union Army, Eighth Minnesota Infantry and his involvement in the Indians Wars and the Civil War. W.L.T. is frustrated as he is systematically isolated from Louisa, the woman he loves. Locations in this book include the prairies of Minnesota, Fort Snelling, Minn., Dakota Territory, the Battle of Killdeer Mountains, N.D., and Yellowstone River in...
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