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ISBN10: 1682011682
ISBN13: 9781682011683
Publisher: North Star Press of St. Cloud
Published: Oct 7 2025
Pages: 244
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781682011683
Publisher: North Star Press of St. Cloud
Published: Oct 7 2025
Pages: 244
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Loneliness gnaws and chews like the relentless prairie wind. Dakota homesteader, Digger Dancy, props his feet in the oven and waits for the storm to end. His brother, George, barges into the soddy in a swirl of blowing snow. George announces he will abandon his claim to seek a wife. He can't stand the loneliness. Digger slaps a stack of old newspapers on the table and convinces him to place an ad for a correspondence bride in the Montana Matrimonial News. Doctor Gamla, the almost-doctor and midwife, treats George's frostbite, and offers a cure for his melancholia. She tells of two sisters living in tar-paper shacks along the Mad Dog River. The brothers cannot imagine how Doctor Gamla's cure will change their lives. Nickelbo's whole world is wheat. The homesteaders talk about crops, worry about the weather, complain about prices, and dream what they'll buy after the harvest. Asa Wainwright busts sod with a grasshopper plow. Ingrid Larson dallies over planting to avoid her sister's wedding. Drunken Oscar Borgom gets lost in a storm on the way to the outhouse. Emma Wilson kneels in the cellar and prays for the hailstorm to miss their farm. Sunniva hauls buffalo bones into town with a team of mules. Skeeter Jorgenson plots for his correspondence bride to arrive in time for the harvest festival. Through it all, Doctor Gamla delivers babies, treats ailments, and offers cures and advice. My cures work if you can stand them.
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