Dakota Incarnate: A Collection of Short Stories

by Bill McDonald

Stories which to life the early days of a prairie settler. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0898231965
• ISBN13: 9780898231960
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: New Rivers Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Dakota Incarnate: A Collection of Short Stories

These four very different and very wonderful short stories are about lives that, by today's standards, are simpler yet certainly more difficult. The rich detail will be nostalgic to some and fascinating to others. In whatever way you relate to these stories, you will be drawn in by the author's captivating narratives. These are not "the good old days" kinds of stories. I don't want to reveal too much, but none of them are at all what I expected. Bill's imagination and his insight will leave you breathless and thoughtful.

Dakota: Where the stories happened

The promise of Dakota Incarnate lies in its beautiful cover. The four fast-moving, fascinating stories present a kaleidoscope of life in the early days of Dakota. Rosebud Requiem tells of a lonely homesteader seeking a mail-order bride; David's Drummer acquaints us with a young Hutterite wife living in the Gadsden Colony who awaits word of her critically ill soldier husband; The Essay Contest introduces us to eleven year old Jackie and tells of his observa- tions of life in small town Nunda as he strives to write a winning essay; Dakota Reincarnation startles us when a thirty-eight year old grandfather meets his sixty-nine year old grandson in an airport in Washington, D.C. My expectations of this book were more than fulfilled. Sometimes, you CAN tell a book by its cover!