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Series
House of Winslow volume 6
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
[1989]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
The Holy Warrior picks up the House of Winslow saga several years after the Revolutionary War. Two Winslow sons race west--one to embrace his dreams and the other to escape the future. Will either survive the dangers of the frontier?
Author
Series
History of US volume 4
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Covers American history from Washington's inauguration until the first quarter of the 19th century, including the Louisiana Purchase, Lewis and Clark's expedition, and the beginnings of abolitionism.
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Series
Abercrombie trail volume 2
Language
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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Language
English
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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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