Improbable-that you have been there. The top of where we are, the bottom rung, the source of the family fortune if you can imagine what that might be. In winter come a blizzard, the trees in the Moores' backyard would shape the swirl, so the snow bank would stay hollow at center and pile steep on two sides. The resultant sloop would hold twenty kids if we had had that many, and all but the smallest could peek over the sides to see if a lynx might come running by-but not stop where we were.--from the book An account of the author's early years in Maida and Langdon, North Dakota, and his discovery, as an adult, of the work of Thorarin Snowfield, a reclusive artist of the region. Although the author did not encounter Snowfield as a child, he is fascinated and traces the artist's life, locates some 70 privately owned paintings, and organizes an exhibition of them at the North Dakota Museum of Art. In the process he finds his way back to his roots and regains his attachment to the places of his youth, and to the person he was and has become.
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I have been blessed many ways in my life."" The author was born in 1922 and spent his childhood in the depression years. He served in the navy during WWII. Cover picture taken the first day back from Pacific WWII. He obtained an engineering degree while supporting a wife and two sons. He held various positions in his working career and continues an enjoyable retirement.
George Armstrong Custer, the golden-boy of the 7th Cavalry, is miraculously found alive among the hundreds of dead soldiers. Then, as a stunned nation looks on, he is put on trial for disobeying orders. While the prosecutor shows Custer as a murderous grandstander, reckless with the lives of his men, the public wants desperately to believe that their hero made a simple mistake. Finally, it's Custer's turn to reveal what really happened that sweltering day along the Little Bighorn.
An alternative historical novel considers the life of George Armstrong Custer if he had lived beyond his 7th Cavalry battles and places him on trial, where he is called upon to explain what really happened at Little Bighorn. Reprint.
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