A fascinating memoir of homesteading in South Dakota in the early twentieth century.

Land of the Burnt Thigh tells the story of two sisters from a comfortable family in the Eastern United States, braving great perils to settle in the West. This

A passage from the book... At sunset we came up out of the draw to the crest of the ridge. Perched on the high seat of the old spring wagon, we looked into a de

A sequel to "Land of the Burnt Thigh," by Edith Eudora Ammons, "The Sodbreakers" is a previously unpublished original manuscript written by Edith Ammons Kohl an