Let the Hurricaine Roar Author:Rose Wilder Lane Westward the course of romance led Charles and Caroline, for the urge to pioneer was in them, and the Dakotas promised free land of great fecundity where they might found a fortune and a family. A dugout is their first home, and there, on Caroline's seventeenth birthday, their baby is born, while outside the Dakota winter rages. And then, spri... more »ng comes and life is a glad song while they plant the rich land and plan for the glorious future. But nature, they find, can be cruel as well as kind' a plague of grasshoppers destroys the fine crop of wheat and the year's hopes and profits are gone. Charles goes off to work for wages at the settlement' Caroline carries on alone out in the dugout on the prairie. Charles suffers a broken leg and cannot return, and Caroline and the baby face the long winter alone in their isolated home. Her courage does not falter - she remembers Charles' favorite hymn: "Let the hurricane roar! It will the sooner be o'er! We'll weather the blast and land at last On Canaan's happy shore!" And she see through the perils of that lovely winter writing Charles brave letters that are never mailed because there is no mail, daring hungry wolves and stray herds of wild cattle and literally fending death from the dugout door. This is an American novel to make an American proud of his heritage.« less