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Red River of the North volume 5
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English
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The rich farmlands of the Dakota Territory in 1887 are finally beginning to yield the abundant harvest the pioneers had dreamed about so long. The establishment of the railroad has brought significant changes to the small town of Blessing as well as prosperity to the Bjorklund family and their neighbors. Among the townsfolk is reverend John Solberg. The reverend, rejecting the persistent efforts of matchmaking mothers, develops a friendship with Mary...
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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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Independently published
Pub. Date
2021
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English
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A historical novel about members of the Fromm family who escape from their master in Western Europe and travel to the Volga River area of Russia at the invitation of Catherine the Great who promised them land and peace. There they tame a frontier and turn it into one of the breadbaskets of the world. Shortage of land and broken promises by the Russians induce their descendants to emigrate to Dakota Territory and begin pioneering anew.
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"Martha Jane Cannary ran through names like whiskey, but one moniker stuck-Calamity Jane. Stranded in a Virginia City mining camp, this orphan blasted through the 1860s West, determined to be noticed and tell her own story. The Not So Quiet Life of Calamity Jane shatters the veneer of legends to reveal her tenacious heart. Rowdy and seemingly hell-bent on her own destruction, this devoted friend, jilted lover, sometime wife, and heartbroken mother...
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Dakota romances (Lauraine Snelling) volume 5
Publisher
Mission Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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