Summary
Minnesota pioneers in the 1860s survived many hardships including blizzards, droughts, locusts, Indian raids, death of family members, and isolation. Sometimes the isolation was the hardest of all to accept. Farm families faced difficult situations, survived to make a place for themselves in the wilderness, and passed along strong values to their children. Western Minnesota barely survived the Indian Uprising in August of 1862 and many of Minnesota's young men fought and died in the Civil War. My great grandfather Henry served in both. This book is based on a true story of my ancestors, but it could be the story of any family that moved west to begin a new life for themselves and their children during this time. Book jacket.
Alice Mergel Alme was born in Anamoose, North Dakota, a small town where her Mergel ancestors migrated in 1898 and to which her family still has ties.
Alice married and raised her family in the area until moving to Illinois in 1988. In 2006 she retired from the health insurance field and moved to Woodbury, Minnesota to be near her six children and thirteen grandchildren.
Alice is a lifelong reader and became so interested in the nineteenth century, specifically Henry and Georgeanna, that she felt left with no choice but to write about the pioneer spirit of that time.
