The Pearson Girls: A Family Memoir of the Dakota Plains Book

If Jo, Amy, Beth and Meg of "Little Women" had grown up in the "Little House on the Prairie" between 1900 and the 1930s, you would have "The Pearson Girls." This is the real-life story of five beautiful, spirited sisters (Lucille, Elsie, Agnes, Flora and Charline), born into the rigors of homesteading on the North Dakota Prairie; it is also the tale of their sturdy parents, Charlie Pearson, a Swedish immigrant, and his Hoosier Schoolmarm wife, Inda. Set against a background of homesteading hardship (Dakota drought, prairie fires, unbearable cold and crop failures), "The Pearson Girls" brings alive the family's humor, intelligence and unshakable faith that good ultimately prevails. In the spirit of Willa Cather, "The Pearson Girls" makes for nostalgic reading, even for those who have never set foot in rural America. For those who have, the book is a homecoming.