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This book was used in grades 4 through 8 in North Dakota schools. Rolfsrud’s most widely read book, it has recently been reprinted by Popular demand.
This book was used in grades 4 through 8 in North Dakota schools. Rolfsrud’s most widely read book, it has recently been reprinted by Popular demand.
Master storytelling about the 'spunky men and women' who left their mark on the Territory and State of North Dakota. ... more
by Vilhelm Moberg
Book 2 opens in the summer of 1850 as the emigrants disembark in New York City. Their journey to a new home in Minnesota Territory takes them by riverboat, steam wagon, Great Lakes steamship, and oxcart to Chisago County. ... more
Rolfsrud's experiences as a one-room schoolhouse teacher with comments on the "Palmer Method" and the potbellied stove. ... more
by Ole Rølvaag
Their Fathers' God, the final book in the trilogy, was written in 1931, and the emphasis is on intense and dramatic projections of the Minnesota and Dakota prairies and the whole westward movement in America.
Against a backdrop of hard times and mixed feelings brought on by the Populist and anti-monopolist movements occurring in ... ... more