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Author Kohl, Edith Eudora, 1884-1959.

Title Land of the burnt thigh / Edith Eudora Kohl ; drawings by Stephen J. Voorhies ; with a new introduction by Glenda Riley.

Imprint St. Paul : Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1986.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  978.303 K824Bk 1986    ---  Available
Description xxxiv, 296 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Series Borealis
Note Reprint. Originally published: New York : Fund & Wagnalls, 1938.
Contents A shack on the prairie -- Down to grass roots -- "Any fool can set type" -- The biggest lottery in history -- No place for clinging vines -- "Utopia" -- Building empires overnight -- Easy as falling off a log -- The opening of the Rosebud -- The harvest -- The big blizzard -- A new America -- The thirsty land -- The land of the burnt thigh -- Up in smoke -- Fallowed land -- New trails.
Subject Kohl, Edith Eudora, 1884-1959.
Frontier and pioneer life -- South Dakota.
Farm life -- South Dakota -- History.
South Dakota -- Social life and customs.
Pioneers -- South Dakota -- Biography.
South Dakota -- Biography.
ISBN 0873511999 (pbk.)

 
    
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