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Our Friend Sitting Bull
Guess who’s coming to dinner? It was a steamy, late-summer day when newlyweds Lizzie and George Dell pulled up their two covered wagons at the site where they would live as cattle ranchers for the next twelve years.
Lizzie was twenty years old. She was exhausted, hungry, thirsty, sweaty, AND six months pregnant. Her skin was tanned like leather and her hands were calloused from driving George’s team of horses four months while he drove the oxen-pulled wagon. Surrounding her were the cowboys, cattle, and horses that accompanied the couple on their long journey.
It would not be long before Lizzie discovered that there were no neighbors for miles in this beautiful but remote part of the Dakota Territory. She wondered if the years ahead would bring a lonely, isolated existence.
They might have—but here comes the BIG REVEAL! One summer day Chief Sitting Bull rode up on his horse. He must have liked the dinner and company that day because he came back often and he brought a lot of family and friends with him.
Lizzie was twenty years old. She was exhausted, hungry, thirsty, sweaty, AND six months pregnant. Her skin was tanned like leather and her hands were calloused from driving George’s team of horses four months while he drove the oxen-pulled wagon. Surrounding her were the cowboys, cattle, and horses that accompanied the couple on their long journey.
It would not be long before Lizzie discovered that there were no neighbors for miles in this beautiful but remote part of the Dakota Territory. She wondered if the years ahead would bring a lonely, isolated existence.
They might have—but here comes the BIG REVEAL! One summer day Chief Sitting Bull rode up on his horse. He must have liked the dinner and company that day because he came back often and he brought a lot of family and friends with him.
134 pages, Paperback
Published October 10, 2021
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October 5, 2024
This is a memoir about a young couple, the Dells, who move to South Dakota to try their hand at cattle ranching during the late 1800s. They live near where Sitting Bull is living with his tribe. The Book is written for Middle Grade students and so it has lots of explanations, a glossary and is written in chapters. One day Sitting Bull comes to their ranch, and the couple becomes friends with him. Sitting Bull visits them many times and when trouble is brewing between the Sioux and the white men, he sends someone to watch over them as they leave SD and head back to Iowa. After losing a son, The Dells did not want to struggle with the harsh winters and droughts and so decided to go back to Iowa with their small family. Very well researched and shows that not all whites wanted to run the Native Americans off of their land.
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