Lane
In the 1880s, when adventure lay in the conquest of the
prairies, David Beaton and his bride came to Dakota to
claim 300 acres of grassland. Rose Wilder Lane tells of
their struggle to survive with such force that Free
Land has become a classic frontier novel. The young
couple experiences cyclones, droughts, and blizzards that
isolate them for days in their sod shanty and endanger
their livestock.
The simple pleasures of home cooking,
horse trading, and socializing interrupt work, described
with a wealth of detail. Lane grew up in the time and place
of which she writes. The book embodies her belief that
living is never easy, that all human history is a record of
achievement in disaster, and that our greatest asset is the
valor of the American spirit.
Rose Wilder Lane was a
successful journalist and novelist when she encouraged and
helped her immigrant mother, Laura Ingalls Wilder, to write
the Little House on the Prairie books. In
Free Land you will experience European
pioneers fighting against huge odds in the beauty and
terror of the untamed plains.
332 pages ----- Soft Cover
