White Birch, Red Hawthorn: A Memoir

by Nora Murphy and Nora Murphy

"This is conquered land." The Dakota woman's words, spoken at a community meeting in St. Paul, struck Nora Murphy forcefully. Her own Irish great-great grandparents, fleeing the potato famine, had laid claim to 160 acres in a virgin maple grove in Minnesota. That her dispossessed ancestors' homestead, The Maples, was built upon another, far more brutal dispossession is the hard truth underlying White Birch, Red Hawthorn , a memoir of Murphy's search...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1517901324
• ISBN13: 9781517901325
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.9" x 7.9"