Stories about North America
Freya Finds Her Soulmate There was excitement at the ranch. It was time for Running Squirrel’s delivery and one of the cowboys was dispatched to the Indian camp to alert the chief and his family. They rode quickly and the wife of the chief and the local Dakota midwife rode back quickly to respond. Running Squirrel had been taken to Freya’s room to give her … Continue reading Freya Finds Her Destiny – Chapter 5
Freya Gets a New Name Freya thanked the foreman in acknowledgement of all the help he’d given in keeping the workers happy on the ranch despite her brother’s difficulty nature. “Erik you can go now and tomorrow, we’ll do an inspection of the ranch. I hope my favourite horse is still available but I’ll leave it to you to arrange all that along with provisions … Continue reading Freya Finds Her Destiny – Chapter 4
Freya Inherits the Ranch As a Lutheran the foreman would feel uncomfortable if he were not married to his Indian bride in a Christian ceremony and have the marriage recorded in government records, He knew marriage with Indians had been done frequently during pioneer days so it was not unheard of, but he was unsure how his fellow workers would handle him bringing Running Squirrel … Continue reading Freya Finds Her Destiny – Chapter 3
Trouble at the Indian Camp The pastor addressed the oldest man among ranch workers. “This ranch has potential and can be a good place for you to stay if the owner of the ranch wants to develop a team spirit with his workers. What would you say to that?” “He would need to make a lot of change in his attitude for us to agree … Continue reading Freya Finds Her Destiny – Chapter 2
Ari’s Inheritance At Risk Bjorn Gustafsson had ruled his family with a rod of iron and life had deteriorated for the family after the loss of his second wife Brigid. His first wife Edda had left two years into their marriage and fled across the border of Manitoba into the US state of North Dakota and was now happily married to another Swede who was … Continue reading Freya Finds Her Destiny – Chapter 1
End of an Era Two years later with his family settled Ethan settled down on their porch at sunset with his beloved Joslyn. He was not his usual energetic self and complaining about chest pains and Joslyn watched him anxiously. Next morning she took her protesting husband to the medical center where Graham worked and seeing them in the waiting room, he came out to … Continue reading The Landa Generations – Chapter 5
New Generation Arises Five years passed with the different family members beginning to consolidate their plans for their future and turn them into action. James had completed his education degree and was soon to start work at one of the elementary schools in Gatlinburg along the way in these studies he’d taken up with a young lady Mary Ann Brown at the college and they … Continue reading The Landa Generations – Chapter 4
Coming of Age When Sarah heard her father had given permission for Will to be in the company of Leah she reacted and went to complain to her mother. James told both sisters they needed to grow up and they both rounded on him in anger. After all they were two years older than their brother so who was he to question their maturity. Joslyn … Continue reading The Landa Generations – Chapter 3
Grown up in Gatlinburg So, the following day with James off at school she sat with her two daughters to talk about their future. Sarah, who was quite outgoing, liked to tease her sister who’d been delivered just minutes apart and claimed to be the eldest in the family and demand the homage of her siblings. “Well mom you know as the oldest in the … Continue reading The Landa Generations – Chapter 2
Migration and Resettlement Ethan Landa paused to wipe the sweat off his brow and consider the current sculpture he was working on. Over the years he’d skimped and saved to invest and now had a formidable collection of modern tools to assist him in his work, but he still liked to work with his original hand tools for the fine finish of his carvings. His … Continue reading The Landa Generations – Chapter 1
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