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"Eleven-year-old John Hale has already survived one brutal Dakota winter, and now he's about to experience one of the deadliest blizzards in American history. The storm of 1888 was a monster, a frozen hurricane that slammed into America's Midwest without warning. Within hours, hundreds would be dead, thousands terrified, lost, and freezing. John's inner strength is seriously tested when he finds himself trapped in the blinding snow, the wind like...

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...

The story of Norwegian immigrants, Per Hansa and his wife Beret, as they settle and create a home at Spring Creek in the Dakota Territory in 1873.

In the Dakota Territory of 1883 Ingeborg Bjorklund's husband disappears in a winter storm. In the spring her late husband's brother and cousin arrive to help her, and Ingeborg finds love again.

"The Civil War created countless spinsters and widows. Anna Olson was one of them. With no prospects for marriage and family, Anna pins her future on the frontier and heads west to stake a claim on the wide-open prairies. 'Most women go from their father's house to their husband's house,' Anna said. 'Here, I have my own house. I am my own person.' But the Dakota Plains are not empty. Anna's new life collides with a Lakota warrior. Two Hawks MacKenzie,...

What they find on America's vast plains is not what they expected -- but it's more than they ever dared to dream.

Before Mark Talbot can rest his tired bones, he finds himself confronted not only with a land war, but a love war, too.

Teddy Roosevelt's wife and mother died on the same night in his home in New York City. To outdistance his grief, he turned his back on a promising political career and fled to the badlands to restore his spirit through a thrilling adventure in the Wild West.

"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...