by Dana George
BOOK DESCRIPTION
1856: Spirit Lake, Iowa is a Powder Keg Waiting for a Spark.
1856: Spirit Lake, Iowa is a Powder Keg Waiting for a Spark.
As the world explodes around them, Mac and Sadie must find a way to survive.
Samuel “Mac” MacCallister returns to his Lake Okoboji, Iowa cabin to find a stranger and her two young sons squatting on his property. Mac is not happy, but his infant daughter needs a caretaker and Sadie is as good a choice as any until she and her children can join the next wagon train west.As they hunker down for the winter, Mac and Sadie have no idea that a renegade band of Sioux are bent on revenge. The Sioux have been degraded, lied to, and slowly watched as their way of life disintegrated. Someone must pay.
The fates of two very different families, each hoping to survive, will collide in this based on a true story event.
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AUTHOR BIO
As the daughter of history buffs, George spent a great deal of her childhood visiting historical sites. While other families traveled to Disneyland, hers headed to Gettysburg or some obscure 19th century homestead. It was impossible for George to stand in the spot where a battle once raged, treaty was signed, or everyday people lived a hardscrabble life without feeling their essence.
Being ever-so-practical, she graduated from college with a degree in business. Still, George kept her hand in history and the paranormal by writing about them and by dragging her own children to long-forgotten ghost towns and sometimes-stuffy presidential libraries. Her hope was that her sons would learn that history is never about the place, but about the people who once lived there.
She is married to the sweet guy she first met in high school history class. In addition to two sons, they have two amazing daughters-in-law and a dreamy granddaughter.
REVIEWS
5.0 out of 5 stars Not only a very good story; I also learned the history of what took place in my home state of Iowa. February 13, 2014
Format:Kindle Edition
I had never heard the accounts of what happened that day. The fear and horror of living through such things is hard for our modern minds to fathom. Yet the story Dana George tells is also a love story and a look into the courage of the people who decided to take a chance on leaving all they knew in order to make a better life for themselves and their families. As for the Indians, looking back on that day, it is hard to read of such atrocities done to fellow human beings. But, from the perspective of looking back through time, one might understand just what they had been put through by a government who rarely kept promises made to them. The settlers weren't' the only ones trying to survive on a land that had been depleted of wild game to feed their families. In the long run, we are all God's children and though I would never condone what happened that day, I can see how the proud native Americans felt that revenge was the only answer. All in all, this book was not only a very good read, it was a history lesson that should be known by everyone who has benefited by the courage of those who came before us.
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful historical novel February 15, 2014
By mygalsal
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Being an Iowa native, and living a scant ten miles from the Mesquaki Indian reservation in my childhood, this book brought stories to mind that my father told me. He had an Indian friend he had hung out with as a young man from that reservation. I have an interest in both the Indian and the people who settled our lands. This book is a great book of both. Recommend it as an easy read!
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