The prairies are one of the greatest gifts to humankind for on those fertile and wide-open lands pioneers built a civilization and a culture, which has fed millions. This book presents the challenges to first settlers along the Red River of Northern Minnesota. Homesteaders settled the unbroken lands of the frontier and faced almost endless obstacles to conquer the soil. Women bore the brunt of the burden, but children and men were not exempt from the agony of the daily drudgery. The homestead was free, but the price paid in toil, sweat, tears, and broken bodies were great. Failure was more common than success.
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Hiram M. Drache grew up in a small farming village and spent much of his early life working at every task in the era of horsepower farming. After experiencing combat as a B-17 lead navigator in WW-II, he received his B.A. from Gustavus Adolphus College, his M.A. from the University of Minnesota, and Ph.D. from the University of North Dakota. He has worked in various businesses and purchased his first farm in 1950. From 1952 to 1991 he was a professor of history at Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota. He is currently historian-in-residence at Concordia where he writes full time.
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