The author tells about her family's life on the North Dakota prairie of the early 1900s, focusing on the story of her mother Carrine, who as a single young Norwegian-American woman staked out her claim in the unsettled land.
Theodore Roosevelt chronicles his experiences on a North Dakota cattle ranch during the late nineteenth century, which includes his first-hand accounts of wrangling bighorn sheep, chasing horse thieves, encountering Native Americans, bronco busting, and more. Features black-and-white illustrations by Frederic Remington.
In the early 1930s, Karl and his sister Mary Adare, arrive by boxcar in Argus, a small off-reservation town in North Dakota. Orphaned, they look to their mother's sister Fritzie and her husband for refuge.