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Rolfsrud's experiences as a one-room schoolhouse teacher with comments on the "Palmer Method" and the potbellied stove. ... more
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
Touching characterizations of a time gone by: courtship, first automobile in Johnny Butte, hero worship, etc. ... 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