Candace Simar

Abercrombie Trail

1 - Abercrombie Trail (Jul-2009)
2 - Pomme de Terre: A Novel of the Minnesota Uprising (Jun-2010)
3 - Birdie (Jun-2011)
4 - Blooming Prairie (Sep-2012)

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  Abercrombie Trail
  

  • Jul-2009
  • / Historical
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  Abercrombie Trail - 1
  

  "Endlessly Fascinating.... The ultimate 'I was there' book. I have read many books about Scandinavians coming to America in the turbulent 1860s, but thanks to author Candace Simar, this is the first time I was ever transported from my easy chair righ...

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  Pomme de Terre: A Novel of the Minnesota Uprising
  

  • Jun-2010
  • / Historical
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  Abercrombie Trail - 2
  

  Book 2 of the Abercrombie Trail Series. Serena and Gust Gustafson lose their home and baby daughter during the Dakota Conflict of 1862.  Foolishly, Gust drags his grief-stricken wife to a small farm near Fort Pomme de Terre in Frontier Minnesota. D...

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  Birdie
  

  • Jun-2011
  • / General Fiction
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  Abercrombie Trail - 3
  

  Birdie continues the story of Evan and Inga Jacobson, eleven years after the 1862 Sioux Uprising. They struggle to raise their five boys and Ragna, orphaned by the Uprising, in the midst of bank failures and the grasshopper plagues....

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  Blooming Prairie
  

  • Sep-2012
  • / Historical
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  Abercrombie Trail - 4
  

  Book 4 of the Abercrombie Trail Series and finalist in the 2013 Spur Awards. Widow Serena Gustafson returns to Pomme de Terre, Minnesota, where her husband was killed during the Sioux Uprising. Her dreams of financial independence dissolve when land ...

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  Escape to Fort Abercrombie
  

  • Feb-2018
  • / Historical
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  ""Simar writes with an evocative clarity that reminds me of Willa Cather. Be prepared to ignore everything else when you pick up this book, because you will not want to stop reading." Nancy Plain, Spur-Award winning author of This Strange Wilderness,...

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  Librarians of the West
  

  • Sep-2021
  • / Historical
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  Too Much Dancing Going On by Randi Samuelson-Brown is the account of an independent-minded young woman in a wide-open Montana who loved books and horses, and later a certain literary young man. The Cowboy, the Librarian, and the Broomsman by Mark Wa...

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  Follow Whiskey Creek
  

  • Dec-2022
  • / Action Adventure
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  **previously published as Escape to Fort Abercrombie Fourteen-year old Ryker Landstad dreams of running away to enlist in the Union Army. After school one day, he discovers his mother and baby sister kidnapped by raiding Sioux. His dying fa...

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  Sister Lumberjack
  

  • Mar-2024
  • / Women's Fiction
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  Bottle fever has Nels Jensen by the throat. Swindled out of his summer's pay, he heads to the logging camps of Northern Minnesota, only to discover he is blacklisted at reputable operations. He is neither a thief nor a liar, but he cannot prove his i...

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