Complex sentence: It is the true story of a family's existence on the frontier during the Civil War, and offers insights into how life was lived in a small Wisconsin village where fear of local Native Americans was a reality and life and death situations arose with frightening regularity.
Split into simpler sentences: It is the true story of a family's existence on the frontier during the Civil War. It offers insights into how life was lived in a small Wisconsin village where fear of local Native Americans was a reality and life and death situations arose with frightening regularity.