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Author:

Simar, Candace.

Title:

Blooming prairie [PB] / Candace Simar.

Format:

[PB] /

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

North Star Press of St. Cloud

Copyright Date:

2012

Description:

281, [1] p. : map ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Indians of North America--Minnesota--History--Fiction.
Scandinavian Americans--Minnesota--Fiction.
Minnesota--Fiction.
Minnesota--History--19th century--Fiction.
Dakota Indians--Minnesota--History--19th century--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Frontier and pioneer life--Fiction.--Fiction.
Locusts--Minnesota--Fiction.
Wadsworth Trail (Minn. and S.D.)--Fiction.
Pomme de Terre (Minn.)--Fiction.

Notes:

The fourth and final volume of the Abercrombie Trail series. Includes bibliographical references (p. [282]).

Summary:

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 from the 1862 Uprising.

Series:

[Book four of the Abecrombie Trail series

ISBN:

0878396195 (pbk.) : :
9780878396191 (pbk.) : :

Locations:

RCPA397 -- Casey Public Library (Casey)