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Rolfsrud’s experiences as a one-room schoolhouse teacher with comments on the “Palmer Method” and the potbellied stove.
Rolfsrud’s experiences as a one-room schoolhouse teacher with comments on the “Palmer Method” and the potbellied stove.
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
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
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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