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Widow 1881 (Flats Junction) Paperback – September 3, 2019

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Proper Boston widow Jane Weber moves to the Dakota Territories under layers of lies to save her reputation. Stirring up controversy, Jane rooms with the last Blackfoot Sioux in town while navigating a mercurial friendship with the fiercely independent town grocer. In Flats Junction, though, everyone has an untold story. Battling her shortcomings, falsehoods, and swallowing her inherent curiosity, Jane must choose how she will truly reinvent herself, and where she truly belongs.
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"Ms. Dahmen has managed to capture the essence of the time period and the heart of the woman brave enough to find her own way in this thoroughly enjoyable and engrossing novel. Don't miss it!" - Lesley Kagen, New York Times bestselling author of The Mutual Admiration Society and Whistling in the Dark.

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"Sara Dahmen has done something most writers can only hope for. She's created a character whose inner strength, her unyielding sense of honor, just might be her undoing. Widow is a breathtaking journey through the interior landscape of a woman whose head has accepted her fate, but whose heart and quiet passions have other ideas." - Scott Wilbanks, award-winning author of The Lemoncholy Life of Annie Aster.

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As one of (if not the only) female coppersmith in America (or the world), Sara Dahmen works as a metalsmith of vintage and modern cookware and manufactures pure metal kitchenware in tin, copper, and iron in her garage. Her debut novel, Widow 1881, won the Laramie Award grand prize for Western Historical Fiction, Fiction Book of the Year from Author’s Circle, featured as a Pulpwood Queen Book Club Book, and is in talks for media development. She has published over 100 articles as a contributing editor for trade magazines, and recently spoke at TEDx Rapid City.

She is the co-founder of the upcoming American Pure Metals Guild, and is also an apprentice to a master tinsmith in Wisconsin, where she works with tools from the 1700 and 1800’s to build vintage cookware or design custom work from scratch. When not writing or sewing authentic clothing for 1830’s fur trade reenactments, she can be found managing her household (not very well), hosting themed dinner parties, reading the Economist and reference books, brainstorming with her husband, John, or playing with her three young children. She is also extremely active in her Port Washington, Wisconsin community, sitting on boards and volunteer positions throughout the city. 

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Promontory Press (September 3, 2019)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 432 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1773740393
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1773740393
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.54 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.98 x 9 inches
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Sara Dahmen is an award-winning writer and entrepreneur, as well as the only female coppersmith in America manufacturing, restoring, and building copper cookware in her Wisconsin copper shop. Sara is traditionally trained in an old-school apprenticeship to create and refurbish vintage or modern cookware. She single-handedly runs her company, House Copper & Cookware, using tools from the 1800s as well as modern power tools, and bases all her new designs on lost American cookware shapes, sourcing all materials from the USA. Her work has been featured in Martha Stewart, Food & Wine, House Beautiful, on PBS, the TODAY Show and many more, and in collaboration with Colonial Williamsburg and Duluth Trading Company.

Sara’s non-fiction book on the history, science, use and care of cookware, Copper, Iron, and Clay: A Smith’s Journey released in April 2020 (William Morrow/Harper Collins). She has published over 100 articles as a contributing editor for various trade magazines, has written for Edible and Root + Bone, among others, and spoke at TEDx Rapid City. Her historical fiction Flats Junction series (Promontory Press, Inc.) has been critically recognized and is currently in development for television.

Prior to undertaking a career in metalsmithing and novel writing, Sara, a Marquette University graduate, was a print, radio and television producer with a Milwaukee advertising company, coordinating productions for clients such as CITGO, MasterCraft Boats, Subway and the Tourism Departments of domestic cities and international countries. She then founded and ran a successful Silver-Anvil award-winning event company in Milwaukee for ten years.

Sara is also a screenplay writer and content creator, hired by producers to write original scripts or create her own. She is also in development on several of her scripts with producing executives across Canada and the UK.

When not writing or smithing, Sara believes in gardening and living as old school as possible on her mini-farm. She can often be found hosting hands-on painting, canning, medicine-growing-and-making, or book club gatherings at her home, checking on the hives, building additional garden beds for ever more vegetable experiments, or stopping in to work with the master tinsmith of her apprenticeship.

Sara lives in the countryside of Wisconsin with her three young children and her husband of 17 years.

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In Widow 1881 (the first book in the Flats Junction series), Mrs. Jane Weber, is a widow with a secret. Unable to continue living within the stifling social conventions of Boston, she leaves her life of status and relative ease to take a job as a housekeeper for Dr. Kinney in the Dakota Territory. Knowing she leaves domestic comforts behind, she finds the courage to face the unknown. What I love about this book is how author Sara Dahmen has overlaid a small story against the giant backdrop of the western territory with well-research historical richness. The issues her characters grapple with—a woman’s place, social confines, tolerance, change, shame, taboo, love, loss—are painfully familiar to modern readers. Gently coursing through the book is a slowly evolving love between Dr. Kinney and Mrs. Weber, the culmination of which is thoroughly satisfying.
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E Hsu
5.0 out of 5 stars Great, historically accurate read
Reviewed in the United States on September 4, 2019
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Great, historically accurate read. Sara presented about historical women's clothing on the frontier at a conference I attended. I was very impressed with her knowledge on the material. I couldn't want to read her books! Widow is heartfelt and rich in historical accuracy's of the era and the western territories. The characters are sympathetic and enjoyable. It's hard to put down.
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Just Jeanne
5.0 out of 5 stars Such a good book!
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If you like historical fiction this is a must read! The author participates in historical rendevous, so it's authentic and heartfelt, from a woman's point of view. Can't wait for the next book!
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Christine
4.0 out of 5 stars Period Perfection
Reviewed in the United States on October 26, 2022
My first book by this author and definitely not my last. Great storytelling and wonderfully defined characters. The book is period perfection and the author has done much research to ensure a realistic experience for the reader. I truly enjoyed this tale.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Good reading
Reviewed in the United States on July 9, 2020
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I loved the characters and period authenticity of this book. There was a bit much ‘romance novel’ in it for me, however. The author’s book: Tinsmith 1865 was much more to my liking. Still, I look forward to the next book in the series!
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Brenda M. Pease
5.0 out of 5 stars Loved Widow 1881
Reviewed in the United States on June 24, 2020
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I’m a Laura Ingalls Wilder fan. I love that time frame and all its history. I also enjoy reading about being a woman in the late 1800’s...fascinating. If you feel the same way you will LOVE this book. The author is a woman from Wisconsin...many great authors matriculate from here! 😊
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5.0 out of 5 stars If you love historical fiction brought to life, you will love and get lost in WIDOW 1881
Reviewed in the United States on May 25, 2018
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I love the first person perspective in the dialect and language of the era ... really helped me connect with the heroine.
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Marilyn Bartelme
5.0 out of 5 stars Must read historical book
Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2019
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Great telling of the hardships and good times of the Dakota territory. Just the right amount of romance to make the story interesting. Waiting anxiously for the next book.
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