Young Pioneers

Synopsis

A story of love and courage to make every American proud of his heritage, Young Pioneers is the lyrical, moving chronicle of a young couple's struggle to found a homestead and build a new life together on the South Dakota frontier in the 1850s. Young newlyweds, still in their teens, their strength of character far outstrips their years. Molly is gentle and shy, quiet and deft in her movements; David is boisterous, bold, full of ease, a fiddler, fighter, farmer. Together they set out with team and wagon hundreds of miles across the plains to the Western prairie. Young Pioneers is a classic story of faith and courage unshaken by hardship, as the young couple struggles to survive the ravages of winter, insect plague, Indian attack, childbirth, and poverty. Their first home is a dugout, where, on Molly's seventeenth birthday, their first baby is born. But their dreams of a rich harvest turn to nightmare when an insect plague destroys the wheat crop, wiping out their farm. David is forced to search for work elsewhere, while Molly stays behind, forty miles from the nearest neighbor, to keep possession of the farm. Alone on the devastated land, beset by wolves and freezing winds whipping across the immense plains, Molly and her infant son face winter alone in the dugout on the prairie. Written with poetic simplicity and directness, Young Pioneers is a true story in fictional form, a story to inspire readers of all ages. A great best seller when it was first published in the 1930s as Let the Hurricane Roar, with nearly forty printings and translations into twenty languages, the novel endures as a story that speaks to all ages of the deep roots of our national heritage. It has now been made into a successful television movie.

Copyright:

1961

Book Details

Book Quality:

Excellent

Book Size:

119 Pages

ISBN-13:

9780070362055

Publisher:

McGraw-Hill Companies, The

Date of Addition:

03/31/21

Copyrighted By:

Roger Lea MacBride

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

History, Children's Books, Teens, Literature and Fiction

Submitted By:

Approval Queue Volunteer 4

Proofread By:

Beverly Cory

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.