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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...
2) Dakota dawn
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Dakota plains volume 1
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English
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Previously published in 1993 by Barbour Books.
She stepped off the train, found her trunk full of quilts, hand-embroidered linens, and household treasures painted with rosemaling designs, and looked anxiously for Hans. The pelting March snow stung her cheeks. "Where is he? Dear God, what will I do?" When Hans failed to arrive at the train station that night, Nora found herself thrown into a life she never expected--Reverend and Mrs. Moen and Carl...
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Pub. Date
2021
Language
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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English
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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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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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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...
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Deutsch
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Here East German celebrity Gojko Mitic stars his very first Indianer film, or East German Western, as the fearless chief Tokei-ihto, whose Dakota tribe is being driven from the land of their ancestors. Based on the carefully researched fiction of Liselotte Welskopf-Henrich, it became East Germany's answer to the West German fascination with author Karl May. This production began the most successful series of box office hits in the history of East...
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English
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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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Prairie plains volume no. 16
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
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...
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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Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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The Story Of Joshua Higgins is the story of a young man who seeks to build a life for himself in a new land. Although it is told as the story of one man and what he encountered over the years in the land that became known as the Dakota Territory, and later South Dakota, it is really a collection of stories of many men and their conflicts with nature and the other dangers they faced on the Frontier. Each chapter is almost a story in and of itself of...
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