Florence : the true story of a country schoolteacher in Minnesota and North Dakota /

The year was 1912 when seventeen-year-old Florence Thompson takes on her first job as a teacher at District 34, the worst country school in Swift County, Minnesota. This is the story of her triumphs and tribulations, living among the Norwegian immigrants in Minnesota during the horse-and-buggy era....

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Main Author: Wendland, Audrey K.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Niceville, FL : Audrey K. Wendland, c2003.
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505 0 |a December 1912 -- District 34 -- Ida's Christmas Program -- Christmas at grandmother's -- The year 1913 -- The Valentine program -- The Spring Creek School, Districk One -- The Holloway School -- Ida's wedding and the Smallpox -- Six Mile Grove, 1915-1916 -- Glimmers of love -- Bowman County, North Dakota -- The Curran place -- Winter in North Dakota -- Spring of 1917 -- Minneapolis in 1918 -- The Hendricks School. 
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