Land of the Burnt Thigh
By Edith Eudora Kohl · Running time 08:04:08 · Memoirs
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"It will be all right," Ida Mary told her father cheerfully. "It is only for eight months. Nothing can happen in eight months." Edith and Ida Mary Ammons, two slightly-built young women raised on exciting stories of a glamorous Wild West, bade their father good-bye in St. Louis and boarded a steamboat up the Missouri river on their way to South Dakota, to make something of themselves on a prairie homestead. They set up near the “Land of the Burnt Thigh” — the Lower Brulé Indian Reservation. It was 1907, and though the days of the covered wagon had passed, conditions on the prairie were harsh,
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