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My Grandparents #farm in the northern woods.

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#StorySettings

I was pretty obsessed with this #Prairie book when I was young in the 70s & also the tv movie/mini-series it inspired .

Written by Rose Wilder Lane (the daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder), it tells the story of Molly & David Beaton, teenage newlyweds in the Dakota Territory during the 1870s & originally was titled Let the Hurricane Roar when it was first published in the 1930s. Pictured is the edition of the book I had.

#poetrymatters
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#LuckyInLove #Dancing

1. Yes, but that‘s mostly because I only have to shop for a few people. I still have to wrap everything, though. 😎
2. The main character in the tagged book helps out in her father‘s store, so there‘s some shopping involved. #two4tuesday

^ our first meeting of 9 year old Earl. Just started this one yesterday, I love a good creepy child trope 🎃
#31in31 #spookoween #OutstandingOctober #BirthdayBashReadathon #Falling4Books

Great book! I sped through this in no time, just because it was so well-written and engrossing. The author owns a small ranch in SD and raised cattle. He doesn‘t like the environmental damage they do, so he switches to buffalo. It‘s a story of ranching difficulties, environmental practices, history, and how to be a land steward. Amazing writing, laugh-out-loud spots, and just a super read. Definitely recommended!

This #TrueCrime book hardly paints a flattering portrait of law enforcement in #SouthDakota! For over 40 years, the disappearance of two teens- Pam Jackson and Sherri Miller went unsolved. The 1971 investigation is paltry at best— they are assumed to have runaway (without cash, clothes or medication) but the cold case‘s reopening decades later feels more like a witch hunt with a laser focus on one theory. The author himself performs the audio!

The story of a prairie snowstorm that killed hundreds of newly arrived settlers on the American frontier in 1888. NF that reads like a novel. Nice mix of personal accounts, politics, and science. Weather nerds like myself should enjoy it . Obviously, so much progress has been made in meteorological science in the last 120 years, and for this, i am grateful. What a tragedy. 4 ❄️.

Finally knocked it off my #TBR! Laskin's account is hugely compelling for the most part - it slowed for me in the sections devoted to some pretty detailed meteorology. But on the whole, it's a harrowing account of a tragic, unforseen event in the midst of what was already a fairly grueling and bleak existence for so many. I appreciated the nods to Laura Ingalls Wilder without letting her stories, so well-known to me, overtake any of the narrative.