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  • Petticoat Pioneer

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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. ... more

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  • Pomme de Terre: A Novel of the Minnesota Uprising

    $14.95

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  • Stone Johnny School

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    Rolfsrud's experiences as a one-room schoolhouse teacher with comments on the "Palmer Method" and the potbellied stove. ... more

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  • The Emigrants

    $17.95

    by Vilhelm Moberg
    Considered one of Sweden's greatest 20th-century writers, Vilhelm Moberg chronicled the joys and tragedies of Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson's lives as early Swedish pioneers in America. First published between 1949 and 1959 in Swedish, the four books were considered a single work by Moberg, who intended that they be ... ... more

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  • The House That Cared

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  • The Last Letter Home

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    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

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  • The Reformation of Grandmother Hulda

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  • The Settlers

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    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

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  • Their Fathers’ God

    $19.95

    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

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  • Unto a Good Land

    $17.95

    by Vilhelm Moberg
    Book 3 focuses on Karl Oskar and Kristina as they adapt to their new homeland and struggle to survive on their new farm. ... more

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  • Will Spring Come?

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