{"product_id":"free-land-9780803279148","title":"Free Land","description":"In the 1880s, when adventure lay in the conquest of the prairies, David Beaton and his bride came to Dakota to claim three hundred acres of grassland. Rose Wilder Lane tells of their struggle to survive with such force that \u003ci\u003eFree Land\u003c\/i\u003e has become a classic frontier novel. The young couple experience cyclones, droughts, and blizzards that isolate them for days in their sod shanty and endanger their livestock. The simple pleasures of home cooking, horse trading, and socializing interrupt work, here described in its wealth of variety. In every detail, \u003ci\u003eFree Land\u003c\/i\u003e comes to life because Lane grew up in the time and place of which she writes. The book embodies her belief that living is never easy, that all human history is a record of achievement in disaster, and that our great asset is the valor of the American spirit. \u003cp\u003eLike the Beatons of this novel, Rose Wilder Lane's parents homesteaded in Dakota. Lane was a successful novelist and journalist when, in the 1930s, she encouraged and helped her mother, Laura Ingalls Wilder, to write the \u003ci\u003eLittle House on the Prairie\u003c\/i\u003e books that were later dramatized for television.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bison Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/1984\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780803279148\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 332\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.77lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.31w x 0.77d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAccelerated Reader Quiz #\/Name: \u003c\/b\u003e56433 \/ Free Land\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.2 \/ \u003cb\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/b\u003e Middle Grade \/ \u003cb\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/b\u003e 16\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Rose Wilder Lane","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36643698737308,"sku":"9780803279148","price":19.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_d416ed81-928e-4010-a49e-f8bdf0fa5633.jpg?v=1603857098","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/free-land-9780803279148","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}