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Author
Series
Red River of the North volume 6
Language
English
Description
She Had Told Him She Was Headed for Blessing. Why Would He Not Take Her There? The Bjorklund family has received word that Augusta Bjorklund is on her way from Norway to join them in North Dakota. When the train arrives in the town of Blessing with no Augusta aboard, the worried family hopes she will be on the train in the morning. But only her trunk arrives, so Bridget Bjorklund insists that Hjelmer, Augusta's brother, go find her. Augusta, after...
2) Paradise sky
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
400 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Dakota plains volume 3
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
248 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
iUniverse
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
viii, 297 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
367 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
[In 1905 Des Moines, Iowa], Katherine Arthur's dying mother arrives on her doorstep, forcing her to relive a past she wanted to forget. When Katherine was young, the Arthur family had been affluent city dwellers until shame sent them running for the prairie, into the unknown. Taking her family, including young Katherine, to live off the land was the last thing Jeanie Arthur had wanted, but she would do her best to make a go of it. For Jeanie's husband...
Author
Publisher
iUniverse
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
252 pages : portraits ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
"They came on boats, on trains, great unceasing waves of them-the poor, the disenfranchised, the seekers, the dreamers. Second and third generations of farmers eking out an existence on scraps of farms divided up among too many sons. Political agitators no longer welcome in their homelands. Young men fleeing conscription in a king's army. Married couples starting out. Bachelors from towns with few women. The poor in tenements with air so stifling...
Author
Publisher
Pinnacle Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
362 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
"Preacher has agreed to escort Barnaby Cooper through Dakota Territory's hills to establish a trading post. Accompanied by his friends Lorenzo and Tall Dog, the mountain man hopes they'll be able to protect Cooper from Sioux warriors who don't want any white man trespassing on their sacred grounds. But the Sioux aren't the only hostiles staking their claim in the region. Englishman Albion Shaw knows there's gold in the hills. And with a band of cutthroat...
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