Windfall: The Prairie Woman Who Lost Her Way and the Great-Granddaughter Who Found Her Bolstad Erika
Windfall: The Prairie Woman Who Lost Her Way and the Great-Granddaughter Who Found Her Bolstad Erika Beneath the windswept North Dakota plains, riches await...At first, Erika Bolstad knew only one…
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Windfall: The Prairie Woman Who Lost Her Way and the Great-Granddaughter Who Found Her Bolstad Erika
Beneath the windswept North Dakota plains, riches await...At first, Erika Bolstad knew only one thing about her great-grandmother, Anna: she was a homesteader on the North Dakota prairies in the early 1900s before her husband committed her to an asylum under mysterious circumstances. Their family still owned the mineral rights to Anna's land--and oil companies were interested in the black gold beneath the prairies. As Erika's mother was dying, she revealed more.
But Erika was drawn to the young woman who never walked free of the asylum that imprisoned her. Their family, Erika learned, could get rich thanks to the legacy of a woman nearly lost to history.Anna left no letters or journals, and very few photographs of her had survived. As a journalist well versed in the effects of fossil fuels on climate change, Erika felt the dissonance of what she knew