Abercrombie Trail : a novel of the 1862 uprising / Candace Simar.
Material type: TextPublication details: St. Cloud, Minn. : North Star Press of St. Cloud, c2009.Edition: 1st edDescription: 282 p. : map ; 23 cmISBN:- 0878393196 (pbk.) :
- 9780878393190 (pbk.) :
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Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Dr. James Carlson Library | Fiction | Simar Candace | Available | 33111007204940 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"Endlessly Fascinating.... The ultimate 'I was there' book. I have read many books about Scandinavians coming to America in the turbulent 1860s, but thanks to author Candace Simar, this is the first time I was ever transported from my easy chair right into the book to experience it with them. The images of courage, cruelty, intolerance, discovery, and simple pleasures have stayed with me. This is one book I won't forget." -John Koblas, author Let Them Eat Grass trilogy
Evan Jacobson's life in Norway was half a world away from the new life he found in Minnesota, 1859. As a stagecoach rider across the state from Fort Snelling to Fort Abercrombie, Evan encounters the effects of the Civil War to the south, the challenges the frontier settlers along the trail faced, and the all-too-close dangers of the Sioux Uprising of 1862.