We Are All At Home: Homesteading with the Blochers in North Dakota

Two-year-old Rosa "Rose" Blocher traveled with her Old German Baptist parents from Carroll County, Indiana, to Ward County, North Dakota, in 1902. The family moved back to Indiana in 1907, but the potential of North Dakota lured them back two years later. As a teenager, Rose became smitten with a farmhand, twenty-one years older than her, who lived and worked with her family. Her parents forbade them to marry. Twenty-one-year-old Rose spent a year in California and returned to North Dakota ...