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Paul Bunyan's sweetheart

When legendary logger Paul Bunyan falls in love with Lucette Diana Kensack, he will do whatever it takes to win her heart, including trying to restore the Minnesota environment to its previous condition as part of Lucette's "love test.".

The runaway friend

a Kirsten mystery
2008
Kirsten Larson, a young Swedish girl on the Minnesota frontier, searches for an answer to the disappearance of her friend, Erik Sandahl, while her family and neighbors assume that he has skipped out on the harvest labor he promised and money he owes.

Kirsten's promise

2003
Ten-year-old Kirsten regrets the promise she has made to a ragged boy she discovers alone near a wrecked covered wagon not far from her Minnesota home.

Frontier fort

fort life on the upper Mississippi, 1826
1998
Provides a look at the history and importance of one particular frontier fort in Minnesota and describes what life was like for its inhabitants.
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