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Candace Simar
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December 2011
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Look at these faces! My Danish grandfather, as a young immigrant, worked on a Red River Valley bonanza farm in the 1890s. He spent summers at the farm and then hiked to logging camps in Northern Minnesota over the winter. With this steady income, he was able to get a start in America. I’m living proof. He met my grandmother who was a cook at the Bonanza farm. Sister Lumberjack tells a story of a f
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Abercrombie Trail: A Novel of the 1862 Uprising (Abercrombie Trail, #1)
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2009
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7 editions
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Pomme de Terre (Abercrombie Trail #2)
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2010
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5 editions
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Birdie (Abercrombie Trail, #3)
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2011
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5 editions
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Shelterbelts
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2015
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Blooming Prairie (Abercrombie Trail, #4)
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2012
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Sister Lumberjack
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Escape to Fort Abercrombie
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Montana Matrimonial News
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2025
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2 editions
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The Glory of Ordinary Time & Other Stories
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Dear Homefolks and Other Stories
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"What a sweet little book. A potpourri of interesting characters, held together by a grumpy old midwife on an equally old and ill-natured horse. Life, love, and tragedy on the North Dakota prairies in the 1880s, presented in great historical detail. A"
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"Another winner of historical fiction by Candace Simar! In Montana Matrimonial News, Simar puts us smack in the middle of pioneer life. This book is a collection of stories of people surviving life in the Dakota territory in the mid to late 1800’s. No"
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"In the pages of MONTANA MATRIMONIAL NEWS, characters vary from siblings who are nothing alike each other, to sourpuss citizens of Nickelbo, to innocent children, and some not so innocent or even able. Simar spins personalities that whet the attention"
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| I have enjoyed the entire Billy Boyle ww2 mystery series. This book felt rushed and confused. | |
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| Quill and Crow live on an Indian reservation in Northern Minnesota. Their world is rocked by missing Native women. This story shows the results of generational trauma. I highly recommend it. | |
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| I bought this book to research homesteaders in the 1800s. I learned a lot. | |
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| readers advisory ...: Pioneering/homesteading/farming/ranching | 12 | 299 | Oct 12, 2011 03:59PM | |
| The History Book ...: * INTRODUCTION - AMERICAN HISTORY | 174 | 720 | Feb 26, 2026 09:10PM |
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Welcome to Good Reads, Candace! This is my home away from home. I'm looking forward to seeing what you've read & liked...or disliked. :)
Great! same here. nothing like a good book!