Abercrombie trail

Evan Jacobson's life in Norway was half a world away from the new life he found in Minnesota, 1859. As a stagecoach rider across the state from Fort Snelling to Fort Abercrombie, Evan encounters the effects of the Civil War to the south, the challenges the frontier settlers along the trail faced, and the all-too-close dangers of the Sioux Uprising of 1862.

Birdie continues the story of Evan and Inga Jacobson, eleven years after the 1862 Sioux Uprising. They struggle to raise their five boys and Ragna, orphaned by the Uprising, in the midst of bank failures and the grasshopper plagues.