Swanson’s first historical novel was listed in the Minneapolis Tribune books section as a reader’s choice for best book read in 2015. D. A. Swanson weaves fictional events around historical facts creating a tapestry filled with accurate depictions of people from Minnesota’s past.
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To order your author's signed copy, order directly from the selection of books listed below. ​
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SIMPLER TIMES

$14.00

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SIMPLER TIMES
A Personal Memoir.
​2020 NEW Release!

Dale’s personal memoir is filled with reflections of goodness, innocence, and all too often misguided play. This book will make you smile, laugh, rejoice, and bring you to tears.

While the story takes place in The Village of Island Park in Minnesota, it will remind all who grew up in rural America the joys of being a kid, the awe and love we had for friends and family, and grand adventure limited by only our imaginations.
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TEARS OF SORROW

$16.00

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TEARS OF SORROW
A Free Nation Lost
​2018 Must Read!

The Black Hills are lost, the Bozeman Trail is closed, Custer is defeated, cherished Sioux leaders are murdered, and the final injustice is delivered at Wounded Knee Creek.

Anton McAllister leads his Dakota family west to escape the white backlash of the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862 as told in Swanson’s preceding award winning novel, The Thirty-Ninth Man. 
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THE THIRTY-NINTH MAN

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THE THIRTY-NINTH MAN
​A Novel of the 1862 Uprising
2013 Best Book Read!

The Thirty-Ninth Man is a historical novel culminating with the mass execution of thirty-eight men, the largest mass execution in the history of the United States.

August 19, 1825, in a place called Prairie du Chien, Michigan Territory, under the guise of concern but wrapped in a cloak of deceit, the federal government began a series of treaties with the Sioux Nation that would lead to the outbreak of the Sioux Wars, and the end of a way of life.

THE WILD WAYS

$12.00

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THE WILD WAYS
​Mystery of the Hanging Tower
A Whimsical Story!

A loudmouthed squirrel named Chatter, a fidgety gopher named Archie, a raccoon with special powers named Ring, and all the animals living on their Enchanted Island select ten-year-old Oscar Johnson to receive the Wild Ways, the language that allows animals to communicate with each other.

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