When Patricia MacLachlan was a young girl, she remembers one special walk on the prairie with her mother. “My mother looked down at her foot prints, and said, ‘Somebody may have walked here or maybe no one ever has. Either way it’s history.’” MacLachlan always knew she wanted to write, but in that moment she felt connected. “There were people before me and there were people who would come after, and I think that is what I needed to write.” She saves bags of prairie dirt to remind her of this simple, yet life-changing walk. More…