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De Smet, South Dakota--1890. Young women growing up in De Smet live by two rules: don't go out in a snowstorm and don't give your heart to Cap Garland. Young Mariah Patterson only managed to obey one. Orphaned and having devoted her youth to scrapping out a life with her brother Charles, Mariah finds herself with no option but to marry the devoted--but dull--Merrill Gowan. Throwing caution to the wind, she seizes an opportunity to lay her feelings...

"An A-Z pictorial for children all about South Dakota including, famous people, geography, history, and state symbols. Topics are introduced with poems accompanied by expository text to provide detailed information"--Provided by publisher.

"Laura's teaching position forces her to live away from home for the first time. Only one thing gets her through the lonely weeks - every weekend, Almanzo Wilder arrives at the school to take Laura home for a visit"--P. [4] of cover..

"Set in the Dakota High Plains during the drought-stricken summer of 1950, Lone Dog Road tells the story of two Lakota boys who embark upon a quest to replace their great-grandfather's channunpa (sacred pipe) after it was broken by a government agent"-- Provided by publisher.

"Engaging images accompany information about South Dakota. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 8"-- Provided by publisher.

Ma and the girls follow Pa west by train where they make their home at a rough railroad camp and plan for their own homestead.

Whether you’re a visitor or a local looking for something different, The Dakotas Off the Beaten Path shows you North and South Dakota with new perspectives on timeless destinations and introduces you to those you never knew existed.

"Ten years after the Seventh Cavalry massacred more than two hundred Lakota men, women, and children at Wounded Knee, J.B. Bennett, a white rancher, and Star, a young Native American woman, are murdered in a remote meadow on J.B.'s land. The deaths bring together the scattered members of the Bennett family: J.B.'s cunning and hard father, Drum; his estranged wife, Dulcinea; and his teenage sons, Cullen and Hayward. As the mystery of these twin deaths...

Because a group of young mice are too busy making merry to pay attention to their surroundings, they are almost eaten by a cat.

A memoir of the author's wrestling against parental expectations, the strictures of the church, and the limits of a society dominated by men as she grows up in a family struggling against Depression-era hardship and personal tragedy to carve out a small farm in rural South Dakota.