Conrad has written two additional books whose setting, like Prairie Visions, is early Nebraska. My Daniel is the story of Julia Creath, now an old woman, who wanders through the Natural History Museum with her two grandchildren while her mind flashes back to the Nebraska prairie when she was a young girl. Twelve-year-old Julia loves her older brother Daniel "with a white fire." She believes nothing bad can happen to either of them. After all, Amba, a strange woman who can see into the past and foretell the future, has told Julia she and Daniel will be locked together for all time.

However, the summer Daniel is sixteen, something bad does happen. Daniel learns money is being paid for dinosaur bones, and he becomes obsessed with saving their farm by finding a dinosaur. He finds the fossilized remains of a dinosaur, but before the man from...