Carrie Young - The Wedding Dress: Stories from the Dakota Plains (Bur Oak Book)
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Set in the Dust Bowl Dakota plains during the 1930s, this collection of stories by the author of Nothing to Do but Stay follows the fortunes and misfortunes of pioneer people who struggle in difficult times.
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The Wedding Dress : Stories From the Dakota Plains Bur Oak Original
author
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Young, Carrie.
publisher
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University of Iowa Press
isbn10 | asin
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0877453861
print isbn13
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9780877453864
ebook isbn13
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9781587292583
language
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English
subject
Frontier and pioneer life--North Dakota--Fiction, Norwegian Americans--North Dakota--Social life and customs--Fiction.
publication date
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1992
lcc
:
PS3575.O69W44 1992eb
ddc
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813/.54
subject
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Frontier and pioneer life--North Dakota--Fiction, Norwegian Americans--North Dakota--Social life and customs--Fiction.
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The Wedding Dress
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A Bur Oak Original
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The Wedding Dress
Stories from the Dakota Plains
By Carrie Young
University of Iowa Press Iowa City
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University of Iowa Press, Iowa City 52242 Copyright (c) 1992 by Ahdele Carrine Young All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America
"The Wedding Dress" appeared originally in Stories 18 (1987); "Bank Night" appeared originally in the Yale Review 74 (1984).
No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, without permission in writing from the publisher. These short stories are works of fiction. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Printed on acid-free paper
96 95 94 93 92 C 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2
Jacket art by Beth Krommes
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Young, Carrie. The wedding dress: stories from the Dakota Plains/by Carrie Young. p. cm.-(A Bur oak original) Contents: The wedding dress Bank night-The skaters-The nights of Ragna Rundhaug-The sins of the fathers-Blue horses Twilight and June. ISBN 0-87745-386-1 (acid-free paper) 1. Frontier and pioneer life North Dakota-Fiction. 2. Norwegian Americans-North Dakota-Fiction. I. Title. II. Series. PS3575.O69W44 1992 92-6522 813.54-dc20 CIP
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FOR MY DAUGHTER Felicia whose enthusiasm and love encouraged me every step of the way
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One The Wedding Dress
1
Two Bank Night
25
Three The Skaters
38
Four The Nights of Ragna Rundhaug
55
Five The Sins of the Fathers
74
Six Blue Horses
90
Seven Twilight and June
103
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1. The Wedding Dress
I wish I could have known Ildri. I wish that just once I could have seen her. She was my mother's friend. All during our childhoods, my sisters and brother and I heard these stories about Ildri. How she was the most beautiful woman ever to homestead on the western plains. How-if circumstances had been different-she could have been a governor's wife, or a senator's wife. Ildri, Ildri.
My mother first met Ildri in a dressmaker's shop on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis shortly after the turn of the century. Then in her early twenties, my mother had come
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to the city from a farm in southern Minnesota and had secured a job as a seamstress for a well-to-do dressmaker named Astrid Fjeld. One day in early spring a young woman walked into the shop. She was wearing a black floor-length coat with a high collar and a cinched-in waist that suggested a well-rounded figure underneath. My mother remembered the coat because she had one like it; the leg-o'-mutton sleeves were at that time just beginning to go out of fashion. The woman wore a soft-brimmed black hat under which gleamed an abundance of auburn hair, bouffant in front and wound into a coil in back. She had a round face, an ample round nose, and startlingly white skin, but her eyes were her most striking feature; large and wide apart, they were the color of burgundy and were set so well beneath the brow that they seemed to float in mysterious brown shadows. As the woman walked in, the eyes were luminous and the face mobile as if she would momentarily break into tears. Alarmed, Astrid Fjeld quickly pulled the woman to a chair and asked her what was wrong.
"Nothing is the matter," Ildri had answered somewhat impatiently. "I am looking for work. I am a seamstress."
Astrid Fjeld, an elegant black-haired doyenne who prided herself on her swift intuitive judgment of strangers, began to sputter. "But my dear, you look like you are going to cry!"
Ildri shrugged. "I always look this way," she said.
She was hired on the spot. Astrid Fjeld had just the week before obtained an important order to make the bridal gown for the June wedding of the daughter of one of the city's flour barons, and she very much needed another seamstress. Ildri, to prove herself, was at once set to work hand-stitching a petticoat, while my mother and Astrid Fjeld continued on the wedding dress. After an hour Astrid Fjeld confided to my mother that she was worried Ildri didn't know what she was about. "All the time she keeps muttering to herself!"
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