Death of a Dream: One Family's Experience of the 1862 US/Dakota War
I'm a native of rural Minnesota and spent my growing up years in Milan as the youngest of four children raised by my businessman-poultry farmer father and mother. I'm a 1965 graduate of Augustana College in Sioux Falls, SD, and a 1969 graduate of Luther Theological Seminary in St. Paul, MN. For 37 years I served as a Lutheran (ELCA) pastor in 5 congregations: Zion in Berthold, ND; Salem in Brooklyn, NY; Faith in Staples, MN; Grace in Wenatchee, WA; and Good Shepherd in Olympia, WA. I retired in 2006 and continue to live in Olympia with my wife, Rose Ann, near to our married sons and two granddaughters. Intense curiosity led me to study family history and genealogy, travel widely, and write in an effort to make sense of my origins.