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The Personal History Of Rachel Dupree
Ann Weisgarber
Putnam
August 2010
On Sale: August 19, 2010
Featuring: Rachel; Isaac DuPree
320 pages
ISBN: 0670022012
EAN: 9780670022014
Hardcover
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In exchange for a wedding ring, Rachel, hired help in an
early-twentieth-century Chicago boardinghouse, agrees to
give Isaac, the boardinghouse owner's son, her share of 160
acres from the Homestead Act, and together they stake a
claim in the forebodingly beautiful South Dakota Badlands.
But after fourteen years and an especially brutal
summer in this unforgiving land, the cattle bellow with
thirst, and supplies are dwindling. Pregnant, and struggling
to feed her family, Rachel is isolated by more than just
geography. She is determined to give her surviving children
the life they deserve, but she knows that her husband will
never leave his ranch: land means a measure of equality with
the white man, and Isaac DuPree is not about to give it up
just because times are hard. Somehow Rachel must find the
strength to stake another, altogether different claim-for
herself, and for her children. Reminiscent of The
Color Purple as well as the frontier novels of Willa
Cather and Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Personal History of
Rachel DuPree tells the little-known story of African
American pioneers and gives voice to an extraordinary
heroine who embodies the strength and spirit that built America.
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