Anglický jazyk

It Just Didn't Happen

Vydavateľstvo: iUniverse
Rok vydania: 2006
Formát: Paperback
Rozmer: 229 x 152 mm
Jazyk: Anglický jazyk
ISBN: 9780595382576

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O knihe

When Danish immigrant soldier, Hans Olufsen, heads west in
1856 seeking land of his own, he meets and marries an Indian
woman named Little Feather. They settle in the Sheyenne
River Valley of what is now North Dakota. Together they
negotiate many disputes and settlements between the white
man and the Indians.

Hundreds of whites are killed during the Minnesota Sioux
Uprising of 1862. Hans must use artillery skills that he learned
in the Danish army to defend Fort Abercrombie. When some
three hundred Indians are imprisoned and condemned to death,
Hans and Little Feather go to Washington, D.C. with a preacher
to plead for President Abraham Lincoln's intervention. Lincoln
frees all but thirty-eight of the Indians, of whom one is Little
Feather's nephew.

Following the Civil War, Hans and Little Feather return home,
where Little Feather teaches prairie survival and English to the
immigrant women. But after the massacre of General Custer and
his troops in 1876, the community turns against Little Feather
and her children. This social upheaval threatens to destroy all
that Hans and Little Feather have worked so hard to create. It
Just Didn't Happen tells the story of their adventurous and loving
life together.