Candace Simar
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Evan Jacobson is an immigrant Norwegian stage coach driver in west central Minnesota. The stops along his stage route introduce the families who live on the trail between Fort Snelling and Fort Abercrombie, just south of Fargo, and reveal their ultimate fate in the 1862 Sioux Uprising and the siege of Fort Abercrombie. Jacobson struggles with learning English, falling in love and fulfilling his dreams, while living with events of the war in the South...
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Abercrombie trail volume 2
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English
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1862 was a tumultuous year in Minnesota history. The Civil War drained the youngest state in the Union of soldiers and resources. War expenses delayed treaty payments, and the Sioux were starving. The result was the Sioux Uprising of 1862. The largest Indian war in U.S. history, it was bracketed by the bloody battles of Shiloh and Antietam. Although the government declared the uprising over in the fall, Pomme de Terre tells the story of settlers in...
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When fourteen-year-old Ryker Landstad discovers his father dying from an arrow wound and his mother and sister missing, he knows the Sioux are on the warpath. Danger is everywhere. Ryker promises to find and rescue Mama and Elsa. He promises to get his nine-year-old twin siblings to safety. It's risky to cut across country to Fort Abercrombie through ten miles of prairie grass taller than a grown man, but even riskier to travel the main trails in...
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North Star Press of St. Cloud Inc
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[2024]
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Bottle fever has Nels Jensen by the throat. Swindled out of his summer' s pay, he heads to the logging camps of Northern Minnesota, only to discover he is blacklisted at reputable operations. He is neither a thief nor a liar, but he cannot prove his innocence. Widow Solveig Rognaldson is left alone with heartache and a mortgage. Without a well-paying job, she will lose her Foxhome farm. Her son marries and moves away. Though she feels too old, she...
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Widow Serena Gustafson returns to Pomme de Terre where her husband was killed during the Sioux Uprising. Her dreams of financial independence dissolve when land values plummet after a scourge of Rocky Mountain locusts. Evan Jacobson, homesteading in nearby Otter Tail County, takes a job driving mules of the Wadsworth Trail. Increasing Indian tensions in Dakota Territory threaten to spill over into Minnesota, renewing old fears and bitter memories...