{"id":22650,"date":"2014-12-19T08:00:14","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T14:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=22650"},"modified":"2014-12-16T18:15:42","modified_gmt":"2014-12-17T00:15:42","slug":"the-high-divide-by-lin-enger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/the-high-divide-by-lin-enger\/","title":{"rendered":"The High Divide by Lin Enger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/title.aspx?ctx=15.1033.0.0.3&amp;cn=1079164\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-22651\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/high-divide.jpg?resize=259%2C400&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"high divide\" width=\"259\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/high-divide.jpg?w=259&amp;ssl=1 259w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/high-divide.jpg?resize=194%2C300&amp;ssl=1 194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 259px) 100vw, 259px\" \/><\/a>In 1886, Gretta Pope wakes up one morning to discover that her husband is gone. Ulysses Pope has left his family behind on the far edge of Minnesota&#8217;s western prairie, with only the briefest of notes and no explanation for why he left or where he&#8217;s heading. It doesn&#8217;t take long for Gretta&#8217;s young sons, Eli and Danny, to set off after him, leaving Gretta no choice but to search for the boys and their father in hopes of bringing them all home.<\/p>\n<p>Enger&#8217;s breathtaking portrait of the vast plains landscape is matched by the rich expanse of his characters&#8217; emotional terrain, as pivotal historical events&#8211;the bloody turmoil of expansionism, the near total demise of the bison herds, and the subjugation of the Plains Indians&#8211;blend seamlessly with the intimate story of a family&#8217;s sacrifice and devotion in <a href=\"http:\/\/rivershare.polarislibrary.com\/search\/title.aspx?ctx=15.1033.0.0.3&amp;cn=1079164\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>The High Divide<\/strong><\/em><\/a>. <em>(description from publisher)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1886, Gretta Pope wakes up one morning to discover that her husband is gone. Ulysses Pope has left his family behind on the far edge of Minnesota&#8217;s western prairie, with only the briefest of notes and no explanation for why he left or where he&#8217;s heading. It doesn&#8217;t take<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/the-high-divide-by-lin-enger\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[2782,616,2781],"class_list":["post-22650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-american-west","tag-historical-fiction","tag-western-fiction"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-5Tk","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22652,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22650\/revisions\/22652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}