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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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Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 4
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IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Laura and her family move to Minnesota where they live in a dugout until a new house is built and face misfortunes caused by flood, blizzard, and grasshoppers.
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2023.
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English
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"Minnesota, 1862: As a woman fleeing from a dark and secret past, Sarah Wakefield leaves Rhode Island quietly and quickly under cover of night for the long journey to Minnesota where she has been advised there is good work to be had. She soon finds a husband who becomes a resident physician for a Sioux town there but the political backdrop of that moment is volatile: white settlers are breaking treaties, Native American land is shrinking, and mass...
5) Pursuit
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North Star Press
Pub. Date
2011.
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English
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Pursuit follows both Uprising and Retribution, the previous two books in the Dakota uprising series and... takes us from the hangings in Mankato to the tragic outcome of the attempted genocide of the Dakota people. In this book, the author meticulously follows the course of events of the subsequent wars and expulsions that characterized the most unforgivable chapter in our history and which are still felt with great bitterness by the Dakota descendants......
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Abercrombie trail volume 2
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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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Blackwater Ben adventures volume 1
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Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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In the winter of 1898, a seventh-grade boy drops out of school to work with his father, the cook at Blackwater Logging Camp in Minnesota.
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Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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In 1900, as a family of Finnish immigrants begins farming on the edge of a Minnesota lake, Matti works as a store clerk, teaches English, and works on the homestead, striving to get out of his older brother's shadow and earn their father's respect.
10) Birdie
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English
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1873 Minnesota. Evan and Inga Jacobson struggle to raise their family in the midst of bank failures, grasshoppers and the lingering effects of the 1862 Uprising. When harsh economic realities force them to relocate to Otter Tail County, they must begin again in a hostile environment. Their foster daughter, Ragna Larson, has grown up haunted by her missing sister, Birdie. Both girls were kidnapped by the Sioux during the Uprising; only one returned....
11) Blooming prairie
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English
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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...
12) New Hope
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Publisher
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard
Pub. Date
[1995]
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English
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Whenever Jimmy visits his grandfather he asks to hear how Great-great-great-grandfather Lars traveled with his family from Denmark to Minnesota and built a home that became the beginning of the town of New Hope.
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Fourteen-year-old Polly Rodgers keeps a diary of her 1873 journey from England to Minnesota as part of a colony of eighty people seeking religious freedom, and of their first year struggling to make a life there, led by her father, a Baptist minister.
15) Young pioneers
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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After getting married and settling at Wild Plum Creek, David's and Caroline's lives are turned upside down when disaster strikes and David must go east to find work for the winter.
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Lulu Publishing Services
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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"Alfred Riggs was a twenty-five year old son of a missionary who found himself helplessly intertwined in the real life actions, events, and people of a harrowing conflict in the history of Minnesota. Alfred grew up among the Dakota Indians of Minnesota and he developed a profound respect for their people and established a near kinship tie to their leader, Little Crow. When war broke out, Alfred was torn between the safety of his family and friends,...
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
After grasshoppers ruin the crops, eight-year-old Laura Ingalls and her family leave Plum Creek and move to Burr Oak, Iowa, where they experience life in a small town and help manage a hotel.
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Publisher
Lulu Publishing Services
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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"In Minnesota's fading frontier the once vibrant Dakota Indians were compelled and coerced to cede their bountiful homeland to those opportunists that would usher in a new era. In 1851, the Dakota Indians signed the Treaties of Traverse des Sioux and Mendota, selling their lands west of the Mississippi River. Frank Blackwell Mayer, a young artist from Baltimore, traveled to Minnesota to witness the negotiations between the Dakota Indians and the United...
20) Battle cry
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Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
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English
Description
In 1862, two best friends, one white and one half Dakota Indian, find themselves involved in a bloody war when when the Dakotas, fed up with being mistreated by the federal government and local citizens, erupt with violence.
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