The jumping-off place
By: by Marian Hurd McNeely ; illustrated by William Siegel ; afterword by Jean Patrick.
Contributors: Siegel, William, 1905- ill.
Publisher: South Dakota State Historical Society Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Pierre, S.D
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780979894046
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life -- South Dakota -- Fiction; Friendship -- Fiction; Prairies -- Fiction; Droughts -- Fiction; Tripp County (S.D.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: In the early 1900s, as four young homesteaders in Tripp County, South Dakota, work hard to prepare for the coming winter, they face drought, discomfort, and sabotaging squatters but find new friends and inner strength to carry on.