Before she became a celebrated journalist and political thinker, Rose Wilder Lane was a child growing up on the windswept plains of Dakota Territory. In Frontier Dawn, explore the formative years she spent in De Smet, where the harsh realities of pioneer life shaped her resilience and ambition. From the influence of her mother, Laura Ingalls Wilder, to the shifting tides of homesteading, Lane's experiences in this rugged landscape sowed the seeds of independence that would define her later work.