Blooming Prairie
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Author: Candace Simar
Description: Blooming Prairie is the fourth and final novel of the Abercrombie Trail series. 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. Serena must release the past before she can embrace her future. Evan Jacobson, homesteading in nearby Otter Tail County, takes a job driving mules over the Wadsworth Trail. While Evan is on the road, newlyweds Anders and Ragna Vollen stay with Evan’s family. Increasing Indian tensions in Dakota Territory threaten to spill over into Minnesota, renewing old fears and bitter memories from the1862 Uprising.
Reviews:
“I’ve long been wanting something in fiction about the Great Sioux Uprising, and Pomme de Terre is the best I’ve seen.”
~Larry McMurtry, author of Lonesome Dove ,
Academy Award Co-Winner with Diana Ossana for the screenplay, Brokeback Mountain
About the Author: Candace Simar is a poet and writer from Pequot Lakes, Minnesota. As a life-long Minnesotan and the grandchild of Scandinavian immigrants, Candace enjoys a passion for Minnesota history and how things might have been.
Visit her website at www.candacesimar.com
Description: Blooming Prairie is the fourth and final novel of the Abercrombie Trail series. 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. Serena must release the past before she can embrace her future. Evan Jacobson, homesteading in nearby Otter Tail County, takes a job driving mules over the Wadsworth Trail. While Evan is on the road, newlyweds Anders and Ragna Vollen stay with Evan’s family. Increasing Indian tensions in Dakota Territory threaten to spill over into Minnesota, renewing old fears and bitter memories from the1862 Uprising.
Reviews:
“I’ve long been wanting something in fiction about the Great Sioux Uprising, and Pomme de Terre is the best I’ve seen.”
~Larry McMurtry, author of Lonesome Dove ,
Academy Award Co-Winner with Diana Ossana for the screenplay, Brokeback Mountain
About the Author: Candace Simar is a poet and writer from Pequot Lakes, Minnesota. As a life-long Minnesotan and the grandchild of Scandinavian immigrants, Candace enjoys a passion for Minnesota history and how things might have been.
Visit her website at www.candacesimar.com