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|  | | Simpler Times–A Memoir
Dale’s personal memoir is filled with reflections of goodness, innocence, and all too often misguided play. This book will make you smile, laugh, rejoice, and bring you to tears.
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The Black Hills are lost, the Bozeman Trail is closed, Custer is defeated, cherished Sioux leaders are murdered, and the final injustice is delivered at Wounded Knee Creek.
Anton McAllister leads his Dakota family west to escape the white backlash of the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862 as told in Swanson’s preceding award winning novel, The Thirty-Ninth Man.
Settling into the Black Hills, Anton and his family merge with the Miniconjou Lakota band of Lone Horn. Anton’s adopted son, Four Wings, befriends the militant warrior Crazy Horse, and their world is turned upside down as they deal with disingenuous treaties, an illegal war brought on by the Grant Administration, and a deranged bounty hunter no larger than a child.
Sitting Bull, Red Cloud, C | |  | | The Thirty-ninth Man - A Novel of the 1862 Uprising
The Thirty-ninth Man is a historical novel culminating with the Dakota War of 1862 and the mass execution of thirty-eight men. History tells us little of the thirty-ninth man sentenced to die with the others, and he is largely ignored in all accounts of the executions.
This novel by D. A. Swanson weaves fictional events around historical facts creating a tapestry filled with accurate depictions of people from Minnesota’s past. Men like Lawrence Taliaferro, Josiah Snelling, John Jacob Astor, and a host of others share the stage with protagonist, Anton McAllister, and the thirty-ninth man, Tatemina—Round Wind. The story begins in 1804 and concludes on December 26, 1862.
The novel’s flap copy hints at the books content:
“Article I: There shall be a firm and perpetual peace between the Sioux and Chippewas; between the Sioux and the confederated | |  | | The Wild Ways–Mystery of the Hanging Tower
Oscar Johnson is given the ability to walk with all the animals because he has a pure heart. Together they solve an FBI case and save the island the animals call home.
Oscar and his best friend, Larry, explore the area around a building they know as the hanging tower where a man had committed suicide thirty years earlier. Chatter, the gray squirrel, makes first contact with Oscar. Larry falls asleep under a tree and Tambo, the crow, passes his thoughts to Oscar. Archie, the gopher, enters the story and is the first to have a two-way interaction with the human.
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