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The Gold In The Hill, Jeffrey Clark Wood
The Gold In The Hill, Jeffrey Clark Wood
Culminating Projects in History
The Gold in the Hill is a historical fiction novel for juveniles, written to entertain, inform, and change attitudes.
The setting is Minnesota in the wake of the Dakota Conflict. The principal characters are David Hughes, a mixed-blood boy, and Good Singer, a Dakota boy. Through the eyes of these two 14-year-olds, young readers should understand the clash of cultures that killed more than 500 whites and caused the death or exile of nearly every Dakota.
David and Good Singer meet in the Dakota refugee camp below Fort Snelling in the fall of 1862. They develop a relationship based on …