The moving story of a young girl's struggle to face her mother's death. "She traveled to our small white house near the Iowa border on a buckboard, her green bag caked with the dusty road ... I knew that she was called "the Shrouding Woman" because I'd heard Papa use those words to describe her. I didn't know what it meant but I knew it had something to do with death." It was once common practice for small towns to have a shrouding woman to help...

Portrays the family of Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson, prospering in the midst of Minnesota's growing Swedish community of the 1860s-90s. Years of toil have brought them a comfortable house and a thriving fram. Now they face a new and terrible challenge as Minnesota struggles through two bloody conflicts--the Civil War and the Dakota War.

Laura and her family move to Minnesota where they live in a dugout until a new house is built and face misfortunes caused by flood, blizzard, and grasshoppers.

In the winter of 1898, a seventh-grade boy drops out of school to work with his father, the cook at Blackwater Logging Camp in Minnesota.

After grasshoppers ruin the crops, eight-year-old Laura Ingalls and her family leave Plum Creek and move to Burr Oak, Iowa, where they experience life in a small town and help manage a hotel.

"A young couple, planning to marry, are torn apart when the Sioux uprising erupts and throws their lives into peril and turmoil. The young man, distraught when he believes his betrothed died in the battle of New Ulm, and believing he has nothing to live for, joins the union forces which are drawn into the front lines in the monumental Civil War battle of Gettysburg where he is wounded and taken prisoner by the rebel forces. When the young woman recovers...

1862 was a tumultuous year in Minnesota history. The Civil War drained the youngest state in the Union of soldiers and resources. War expenses delayed treaty payments, and the Sioux were starving. The result was the Sioux Uprising of 1862. The largest Indian war in U.S. history, it was bracketed by the bloody battles of Shiloh and Antietam. Although the government declared the uprising over in the fall, Pomme de Terre tells the story of settlers...

Twenty-year-old Sky Hoffman signs a contract to marry a man from the north woods of Minnesota, whom she's never met.

Fourteen-year-old Polly Rodgers keeps a diary of her 1873 journey from England to Minnesota as part of a colony of eighty people seeking religious freedom, and of their first year struggling to make a life there, led by her father, a Baptist minister.