Lauraine Snelling is the award-winning author of over 60 books, fiction and nonfiction, for adults and young adults. Her books have sold over two million copies. Besides writing books and articles, she teaches at writers' conferences across the country. She and her husband live in Tehachapi, California.

It is 1893 and the first generation of immigrants who came to America for the promise of free land and a good life for their children have finally achieved their dreams. They labored hard on the land and now have a bountiful heritage to pass on to the next generation. However, many of the young people aren't interested in becoming farmers--they have aspirations of their own.   
  
Thorliff Bjorklund has been writing stories and plays since he was a young boy and longs to attend college to study journalism. But his father has other plans for him and refuses to agree.   
  
Thorliff is torn between love for his father and the pull of his dream. Must he choose between the two?

New look for bestselling account of life in the newly settled Dakota Territory in the 1890's as a new generation struggles to achieve their dreams.

Snelling, Lauraine

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It is 1893 and the first generation of immigrants who came to America for the promise of free land and a good life for their children have finally achieved their dreams. They labored hard on the land and now have a bountiful heritage to pass on to the next generation. However, many of the young people aren't interested in becoming farmers--they have aspirations of their own.  
  
Thorliff Bjorklund has been writing stories and plays since he was a young boy and longs to attend college to study journalism. But his father has other plans for him and refuses to agree.  
  
Thorliff is torn between love for his father and the pull of his dream. Must he choose between the two?

New look for best-selling account of life in the newly settled Dakota Territory in the 1890's as a new generation struggles to achieve their dreams. Return to Red River book 1.

It is 1893 and the first generation of immigrants who came to America for the promise of free land and a good life for their children have finally achieved their dreams. They laboured hard on the land and now have a bountiful heritage to pass on to the next generation. However, many of the young people aren't interested in becoming farmers--they have aspirations of their own. Thorliff Bjorklund has been writing stories and plays since he was a young boy and longs to attend college to study journalism. But his father has other plans for him and refuses to agree. Thorliff is torn between love for his father and the pull of his dream. Must he choose between the two?

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A very welcome re-issue of this book originally published in 2001, gives readers like me who have come late to the Red River Valley stories, a chance to learn the background to the books we have already read.  
Thorliff Bjorklund graduates from the small school in Blessing where he lives with his extended family who emigrated from Norway when he was a little boy. They are a close-knit God-fearing community who have carved out a good life for themselves in this fertile land despite suffering floods and droughts throughout the years. Thorliff’s step-father Haakan, has always thought that Thorliff as the oldest boy, would take over the land, but it is Andrew the younger brother who loves every aspect of farming, Thorliff loves the land and his family but has a passion for writing.  
Way off in Northfield, Minnesota Elizabeth Rogers is a gifted young lady whose passion is to become a doctor with a particular calling to help Mothers in childbirth and reduce the number of deaths. Her mother and father have other ideas.  
The story winds its way along these two separate paths until Elizabeth and Thorliff meet, but for what happens next we shall have to wait till Book Two of the series.

A Dream to Follow

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