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Dakota Territory Fiction Frontier and pioneer life Frontier and pioneer life Dakota Territory Fiction Frontier and pioneer life Fiction Immigrants Fiction Indians of North America North Dakota Fiction Large type books Norwegian Americans Fiction Ojibwa Indians Fiction Red River of the North FictionRølvaag, O. E. (Ole Edvart)
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPerennial 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROLWilder, Laura Ingalls
Summary: Laura has her first experiences as a teacher, and is courted by Almanzo Wilder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Children's Audio 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC WILCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD WILBenjamin, Melanie
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Benjamin 2021Erdrich, Louise.
Summary: Having survived World War I, Fidelis Waldvogel returns to his quiet German village and marries the pregnant widow of his best friend, killed in action. With a suitcase full of sausages and a master butcher's precious knife set, Fidelis sets out for America. In Argus, North Dakota, he builds a business, a home for his family--which includes Eva and four sons--and a singing club consisting of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ERDByler, Linda
Summary: "Hannah, a feisty young Amish woman, lives on her family's farm in North Dakota. As the local Amish community begins to thrive, a terrible drought and a windmill fire devastate their business and the community. Hannah must choose whether to stay in North Dakota or move back to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, with the other Amish families that are leaving"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BYLSteel, Danielle.
Summary: This centuries-spanning novel interweaves the lives of two women: a writer working in the heart of modern academia and a daring young Sioux Indian on an incredible journey in the eighteenth century. The result is a story of courage in the face of the unknown.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STEBenjamin, Melanie
Summary: The morning of January 12, 1888, was unusually mild, following a long cold spell, 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. At the hour when most prairie schools were letting out for the day, a terrifying, fast-moving blizzard struck without warning. Schoolteachers as young as sixteen were...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BENCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BENCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BENCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Benjamin 2021Byler, Linda
Summary: Hannah, a feisty young Amish woman, lives on her family's farm in North Dakota. After moving halfway across the country and struggling to land on their feet, Hannah's family is finally feeling settled. The cattle business is doing well, and other Amish families have moved into the area. Feeling betrayed by Clay Jenkins and unimpressed with her own father, Hannah is hesitant to trust the men...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Byler 2017Fuller, Alexandra
Summary: "From bestselling memoirist Alexandra Fuller, a debut novel. Lakota Oglala Sioux Nation, South Dakota. Two Native American cousins, Rick Overlooking Horse and You Choose Watson, though bound by blood and by land, find themselves at odds as they grapple with the implications of their shared heritage. When escalating anger towards the injustices, historical and current, inflicted upon the Lakota...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FULErdrich, Louise
Summary: Thomas Wazhushk is the night watchman at the jewel bearing plant, the first factory located near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a Chippewa Council member who is trying to understand the consequences of a new 'emancipation' bill on its way to the floor of the United States Congress. It is 1953 and he and the other council members know the bill isn't about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ERDCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ERDWilder, Laura Ingalls
Summary: At fifteen, Laura earns her teacher's certificate, gets a job, and starts going to parties.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Children's Audio 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC WILCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD WILErdrich, Louise
Summary: It is 1953. Thomas Wazhushk is the night watchman at the first factory to open near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a prominent Chippewa Council member, trying to understand a new bill that is soon to be put before Congress. The US Government calls it an 'emancipation' bill; but it isn't about freedom - it threatens the rights of Native Americans to their land,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ERDCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ERDSnelling, Lauraine
Summary: "Though she has known hardships in her life, Ingeborg Bjorklund chooses to focus on all she has been given. Blessed with children and grandchildren, she enjoys the friendship and support of the entire Blessing, North Dakota, community. And after several years of widowhood, she has reached a place of contentment with her life. Meanwhile, her stepson Thorliff is raising two children alone since...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SNEBrown, Dee Alexander.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 1983
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BROLasky, Kathryn
Summary: "Yossel, along with his family, flees anti-Jewish Russian pogroms in the late nineteenth century and settles in the American Southwest where he forges a friendship with Thomas, a Native American Navajo boy"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge Publishing 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LASErdrich, Louise.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPerennial 2001
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ERDCollins, Olive
Summary: "In 1865, Goldie O'Neill was nine years of age when she trekked across the unclaimed American West with her family to form their own Irish catholic Colony. Their new community had dreams of self-governance and prosperity far removed from the anti-Irish sentiment and prejudice of the ruling classes. They soon learned about the extremes of the American West and the ongoing Indian war. A year...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Collins 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COLErdrich, Louise.
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Publisher / Publication Date: H. Holt 1993
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Summary: The lives and destinies of the Kashpaws and the Lamartines intertwine on and around a North Dakota Indian reservation from 1934 to 1984, in an authentic tale of survival, tenacity, tradition, injustice, and love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ERDSnelling, Lauraine.
Summary: Hjelmer travels west to work on the railroad, but after sending only one letter to Penny, who has agreed to wait for him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SNESnelling, Lauraine.
Summary: Ever so slowly the Dakota Territory is being transformed from a vast prairie into rich farmlands. Finally the Bjorklund family and their neighbors are reaping the promised harvest that had drawn them from their homes in Norway to cross the Atlantic. Withthe coming of the railroad and shipments of wheat to larger markets, the small town of Blessing beings to prosper in 1886.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Publishers 1998
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SNERunyan, Aimie K.
Summary: In 1667, an invisible wall separates settlers in New France from their Huron neighbors. Yet whether in the fledgling city of Quebec or within one of the native tribes, every woman’s fate depends on the man she chooses—or is obligated—to marry. Although Claudine Deschamps and Gabrielle Giroux both live within the settlement, their prospects are very different. French-born Claudine has followed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC RUNCopeland, Lori.
Summary: "Mae Wilkey's sweet next-door neighbor, Pauline, is suffering from old age and dementia and desperately needs family to come help her. But Pauline can't recall having kin remaining. Mae searches through her desk and finds a name--Tom Curtis, who may justbe the answer to their prayers."--P. [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvest House Publishers 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COPJohnston, Terry C.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Paperbacks 1992