900 Miles from Nowhere: Voices from the Homestead Frontier

by Steven R. Kinsella

Book Overview

It was on the vast American prairie that people from around the world seized the opportunity for personal and economic freedom promised by free land. Traveling across oceans and continents, these hard-nosed, pragmatic people began arriving in the 1860s with shovels and plows, convinced they were part of something important. They were. Putting hand to plow and breaking the sod for their first crude homes, these hardy settlers left an indelible thumbprint...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0873515722
• ISBN13: 9780873515726
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.2" x 10.1"