The Buckskin Moon

A dream of land of their own...Homesteaders traveled westward to the unbroken prairies of Dakota Territory, known as South Dakota and North Dakota after President Benjamin Harrison signed the statehood papers. ____ Four different worlds collided on this windswept land; Native Americans, cattlemen, sheepmen and homesteaders all tried to fit their way of life onto the broad expanse of prairie that rose up from the Missouri River and surrounding tributaries. ____ Ferral McAlester was one such homesteader who followed her dream and filed a claim on 160 acres near Pierre, South Dakota. Ferral's new life would be rough but she hoped there might be a future for her in South Dakota.