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    Into the Prairie: The Pioneers
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    Into the Prairie: The Pioneers

    By Rosanne Bittner

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    With her Westward America! novels, beloved novelist Rosanne Bittner tells the personal stories of some of the brave pioneers who settled this country's early wilderness at great personal risk. Deftly combining soul-stirring romance with true American history, Bittner creates a world in which brave men and women make the greatest sacrifices possible to see their dreams made reality---and with them, the dreams of a young nation.

    Jonah Wilde has always had an untamed spirit, and he will stop at nothing to achieve his dream of building a farming empire in the wild prairies of Indiana. But in 1810, the Shawnee Indians still call these prairies home, and a disastrous and violent encounter with the Shawnee changes everything for the Wilde family.

    Jonah's young wife, Sadie, and his three-year-old son, Paul, are left to fend for themselves at Tippecanoe. Her dreams in tatters, Sadie doesn't know whether she'll have the strength to go on. Sadie and Paul's fate lies in the hands of the Powatomi leader, Windigo, and his Shawnee counterpart, the notorious Tecumseh. Will their lives be spared? And if they live, will they ever return to the life Sadie dreamt of with Jonah?

    Bestselling and beloved author Rosanne Bittner will break your heart as she brings to life the stories of the brave pioneers who settled, shaped, and died for the young nation of America.



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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateMar 2, 2010
    ISBN9781429985239
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    Into the Prairie: The Pioneers
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    Rosanne Bittner

    Rosanne Bittner has penned fifty-nine novels since 1983, stories about America’s 1800s Old West and Native Americans. She has won numerous writing awards, including the coveted Willa Award from Women Writing the West for Where Heaven Begins.  Her works have been published in Russia, Taiwan, Norway, Germany, Italy, and France. Bittner is a member of Women Writing the West, Western Writers of America, the Nebraska, Oklahoma, and North Berrien (Michigan) Historical Societies, Romance Writers of America, Mid-Michigan Romance Writers of America, and a Board member of the Coloma Lioness Club, a local charitable organization.

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      This historical romance takes place between 1810 and 1812, with Jonah Wilde, his wife, Sadie, and toddler, Paul, heading out from Ohio into Indiana, to settle on the plains. They manage to construct a sod home, begin to till the soil, and survive their first plains winter when two Potawatomi warriors living amongst the Shawnee kidnap Sadie and Paul, leaving Jonah and another family for dead.The novel alternates, in chronological order, between the pioneer and Native American points of view, weaving in historical material concerning the great Shawnee chief, Tecumseh; his brother and spiritual leader, Tenskwatawa; Territorial Governor William Henry Harrison; Tecumseh's efforts to rescind the Fort Wayne Treaty and unify southern tribes against the Americans; the 1811 Battle of Tippecanoe; and the New Madrid earthquake, a series of incredibly strong earthquakes taking place in the midwest from December 1811 through February 1812. There are a few glaring editorial errors (the chapter heading for the New Madrid earthquake material is dated December 11, 1812, with the immediately following chapter dated January 4, 1812), and a few anachronisms, but overall, Into the Prairie is a pleasant review of early American history and a fine romance.