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A novel inspired by Rolfrud’s immigrant mother. Fiction based upon experiences of single women and widows who homesteaded, often beginning in sod huts.
A novel inspired by Rolfrud’s immigrant mother. Fiction based upon experiences of single women and widows who homesteaded, often beginning in sod huts.
by Vilhelm Moberg
Book 4 portrays the Nilsson family during the turmoil of the Civil War and Dakota Conflict and their prospering in the midst of Minnesota's growing Swedish community of the 1860s-90s. ... more
Rolfsrud's experiences as a one-room schoolhouse teacher with comments on the "Palmer Method" and the potbellied stove. ... more
by Ole Rølvaag
Written in 1929, Peder Victorious, subtitled "A Tale of the Pioneers Twenty Years Later," is the second book in this trilogy and brings the immigrants into the twentieth century. For Rølvaag's second generation of "vikings of the prairie," the battle against the land has been won, but they are faced ... ... more