[PDF] Pioneer Norwegian Settlement In Minnesota To 1876 eBook

Author : Norwegian Statehood Pioneer Project
Publisher :
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 27,62 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Minnesota
ISBN : 9780615253480

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The celebration of Minnesota's Sesquicentennial would not have been complete without acknowledging its Norwegian pioneers. This book is the result of a request for submissions of stories of Norwegians in Minnesota Territory and pioneers through 1908, brief biographies of Norwegians who lived in Minnesota at the time of statehood and a list of later Norwegian settlers (through 1908), St. Olaf Medal winners, an account of the NSPP sesquicentennial celebration. With index

Author : Chad Muller
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 37,39 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738519494

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Spring Grove: Minnesota's First Norwegian Settlement is a tribute to the state's earliest Norwegian emigrants, and to generations of Norwegian Americans who have made this small farming community amongst deep valleys, fjord-like bluffs, and winding streams their true vesterheim. It is a tale told through striking historic photographs, many previously unreleased, and personal narratives, often humorous and always insightful. The area was first settled in the 1850s by pioneers like James Smith, who, inspired by the landscape, named the place Spring Grove. Smith was followed by the likes of "Big" Ole Gulbransgutton, who chased crooked land surveyors out of town with his bare fist; by the innovative Mons Fladager, whose business acumen earned him the title of "Father of Spring Grove"; and by the 20th-century cartoonist Peter J. Rosendahl, whose work gave a comical voice to the challenges of cultural assimilation. Spring Grove: Minnesota's First Norwegian Settlement also conveys the universality of the Norwegian immigrant experience, and anyone with Norwegian roots who desires to learn more about their ancestors will find it an enjoyable read.

Author : Odd S. Lovoll
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 18,99 MB
Release : 2007-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780873516037

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A pioneering study that examines the social, cultural, and religious development of Norwegian Americans in the agricultural communities of rural Minnesota.

Author : Ozzie Sollien
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,32 MB
Release : 2019-04-05
Category :
ISBN : 9781092561877

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Minnesota Pioneers 1871 is the third book chronicling a small group of Norwegian immigrants to America in 1861 and their remarkable lives as settlers, soldiers and pioneers on the American Frontier. The story is based on a manuscript by Mathilde Berg Grevstad, daughter of Ole Iver Berg, a central figure in the founding of the village of Lake Park. It is a first hand account about the trip from Fillmore County to Becker County and the everyday life of pioneers who were the first to set foot on unsettled land in the American Midwest. Ole Iver was a close friend of the Hansen brothers, Hans and Olaus. While Olaus after the Civil War became a soldier in George Custer's 7th U.S. Cavalry, Ole Iver and Hans - another veteran from the war - kept close ties and in 1871 migrated to Becker. Hans became the first blacksmith in town. Through Mathilde's story and new research the book tells us about the harsh conditions the settlers met in the unbroken wilderness - a vast country of mosquito filled marshes, snow storms, hail storms, massive, destructive swarms of grasshoppers, fleas, lice, bedbugs, blackbirds - and Indians. However, through undaunted courage and persistence the pioneers carved out a niche on the Frontier by utilizing Minnesota's abundant wildlife and productive soil - and the Northern Pacific Railroad - creating a community with social, political and religious life which exists to this day. Also watch out for the two previous books: "From the Hornets' Nest to Custer's Last Stand" and "Suicide by Army Life".

Author : Erling Ylvisaker
Publisher :
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 36,43 MB
Release : 1934
Category : Norwegian Americans
ISBN :

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True stories of Norwegian settlers in Minnesota and Wisconsin.