Free Land is a novel by Rose Wilder Lane that features American homesteading during the 1880s in what is now South Dakota.

[1][3] The newlywed Beatons migrate to Dakota Territory during the 1880s to claim 300 acres (1.2 km2) of grassland.

But their struggle to survive includes brutal isolation from the rest of the world as cyclones and blizzards hit, and drought challenges their ability to live off their land.

The author, Rose Wilder Lane, grew up herself in the time and place of which she writes.

Regarding its 1933 predecessor in particular, it "[bears] perhaps too close a resemblance to Let The Hurricane Roar in general pattern and some details, but [shows] a distinct advance in handling.