The High Prairie (Paperback)

Disease. Storms. Indians. Gunmen. Loneliness. A person could find all of these and more out on the American prairie of the 1800s. The place was so difficult, it's a wonder that it ever got settled at all; a place of hardships and dangers. The High Prairie takes the reader to the Battle of Campbell's Island in Illinois during the War of 1812, through the disappointments and perils of prairie life in the 1830s and 1840s, to an odd killing in Omaha City of the Nebraska Territory in the early 1850s. The book is a glimpse of America at its most difficult.