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"The morning of January 12, 1888, was unusually mild, following a punishing cold spell. It was warm enough for the homesteaders of the Dakota Territory to venture out again, and for their children to return to school without their heavy coats-- leaving them unprepared when disaster struck. At the hour when most prairie schools were letting out for the day, a terrifying, fast-moving blizzard blew in without warning. Schoolteachers as young as sixteen...
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I survived volume 16
Pub. Date
2018
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English
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When John Hale's parents moved from Chicago to a farm in the Dakota Territory in the late 1880s, he was not happy (too hot in summer, too cold in winter, and that is just the beginning); but after a year, and now eleven, he has settled in and made some friends at school--but when a sunny day in January 1888 turns abruptly into a deadly blizzard he will need all his strength and courage to survive what became known to history as The Children's Blizzard....
11) Dakota panorama
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Pub. Date
1973
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English
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"In 1861, Congress created Dakota Territory. It was a vast area embracing the present states of North and South Dakota, most of Montana, much of Wyoming, and a small portion of Nebraska north of the Niobrara River."--Foreword to 4th ed. This history concentrates on South Dakota.
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1989
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English
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"This is a complete historically documented story of the Fort Pierre-Deadwood Trail.
The amount of freight and traffic on this oxen, horse, mule and walking trail compared to many branch rail lines of today. It is reported that close to 40 million pounds of freight crossed western South Dakota over this trail in 1880.
The United States was suffering from one of its worst periods of economic depression in the late 1860's and early 1870's following...
15) Honoring Anna
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Honoring Anna volume Bk. 1
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English
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Even at the tender age of nine, Anna Ingevich knows her life will never be the same when her mom, Karin, dies at the age of thirty. Anna's father, Bjorn, is a hard man but that is what living in Norway requires. Life does not get any easier for her when he marries Marion, who already has three children of her own. As the days go on, she begins to ask herself one question, over and over: How do I escape Norway and get to America? Iver Olson loves his...
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Honoring Anna volume Bk. 2
Pub. Date
[2019].
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English
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Alone, young Anna immigrated to America from Norway at 16, running from cruelty. Honor forced her to leave New York, running again, this time from love. Working her way across America she brought her work ethic, honor, and love with her. On a Dakota homestead Anna found love again, but with it and her life there came an abundance of hardship, sometimes taking her faith and courage close to the breaking point. This novel follows the true life story...
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Prairie plains volume no. 16
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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Rumors of gold in the Black Hills, even before Custer's 1874 expedition, enticed many a fortune seeker to Dakota Territory, where lawlessness ruled the day. To the Dakota frontier in 1873, President Grant sent Peter C. Shannon as the new Chief Justice of the Dakota Territory Supreme Court. A Pennsylvanian, Shannon brought the rule of law, trying murderers, horse thieves, vigilantes, men of fortune, women of the night, and a passel of blacklegs. Among...
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