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A collection of short stories about the struggles of some and the evil of others. They are stories of good triumphing over bad; and how even in a time when the law was often not to be found, some men still did what was right. Although the stories in this book are fiction, they show the spirit of those people that settled the west and helped make the legends of the frontier.
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A collection of short stories that show what it took to build in the west. The stories show how men fought to survive, fought to bring law and order to a lawless land, and the perils that faced those who simply traveled across the land. The stories are fiction, yet they could have happened to any of the many souls that will never be known who reached out to the west for a better life.
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[2013]
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English
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Stories about what it took to tame the land that is now known as South Dakota. The Dakota Territory was formed on March 2, 1861 about six weeks before the Civil War began. It remained a territory until November 1, 1889 when it was split into North Dakota and South Dakota.
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2008
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English
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A collection of short stories about the strengths and weaknesses of those people who moved into the west to live and raise their families. There are stories of the willingness of some to overcome the hardships that were thrust upon them. There are stories of those who brought law and order to the west. Although the stories are fiction, they show the determination of the men and women to take the wild and open land and make it a place to live and...
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2023
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English
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Isaac Madison was a young man of twenty who had a deep desire to see the Frontier. He had read about it in different newspapers. In one newspaper he read about the possibility of gold in the Black Hills.
Isaac had also read about the unrest between the northern states and the southern states, and that it might become an armed conflict. He had no interest in the problems between the north and south. With war a strong possibility, Isaac decided it would...
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2022
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English
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Vanishing Wilderness is a collection of stories that take place at a time in this country's history when the west was beginning to change. Although all the stories are fiction, the stories are about things that could have happened with some having real history in the background.
The first story is about a man who tries to get a group of men to change their way of making a living before their greed changes it for them. Although he has some success,...
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