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Author : Carlton Chester Qualey
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN 13 : 0873517474
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Norwegians in Minnesota written by Carlton Chester Qualey and published by Minnesota Historical Society Press. This book was released on 2014-12-11 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Odd S. Lovoll
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 9780873516037
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Norwegians on the Prairie written by Odd S. Lovoll and published by Minnesota Historical Society. This book was released on 2007-08 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneering study that examines the social, cultural, and religious development of Norwegian Americans in the agricultural communities of rural Minnesota.
Author : Chad Muller
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738519494
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (194 download)
Download or read book Spring Grove written by Chad Muller and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Sverre Lovoll
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 0873519728
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Across the Deep Blue Sea written by Odd Sverre Lovoll and published by Minnesota Historical Society. This book was released on 2015-02 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Across the Deep Blue Sea investigates a chapter in Norwegian immigration history that has never been fully told before. Odd S. Lovoll relates how Quebec, Montreal, and other port cities in Canada became the gateway for Norwegian emigrants to North America, replacing New York as the main destination from 1850 until the late 1860s. During those years, 94 percent of Norwegian emigrants landed in Canada. After the introduction of free trade, Norwegian sailing ships engaged in the lucrative timber trade between Canada and the British Isles. Ships carried timber one way across the Atlantic and emigrants on the way west. For the vast majority landing in Canadian port cities, Canada became a corridor to their final destinations in the Upper Midwest, primarily Wisconsin and Minnesota. Lovoll explains the establishment and failure of Norwegian colonies in Quebec Province and pays due attention to the tragic fate of the Gaspe settlement. A personal story of the emigrant experience passed down as family lore is retold here, supported by extensive research. The journey south and settlement in the Upper Midwest completes a highly human narrative of the travails, endurance, failures, and successes of people who sought a better life in a new land. Odd S. Lovoll, professor emeritus of history at St. Olaf College and recipient of the Fritt Ords Honnør for his work on Norwegian immigration, is the author of numerous books, including Norwegians on the Prairie and Norwegian Newspapers in America"--
Author : Vidar Sundstøl
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452940428
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)
Download or read book The Land of Dreams written by Vidar Sundstøl and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Riverton Prize for best Norwegian crime novel and named by Dagbladet as one of the top twenty-five Norwegian crime novels of all time, The Land of Dreams is the chilling first installment in Vidar Sundstøl’s critically acclaimed Minnesota Trilogy, set on the rugged north shore of Lake Superior and in the region’s small towns and deep forests. The grandson of Norwegian immigrants, Lance Hansen is a U.S. Forest Service officer and has a nearly all-consuming passion for local genealogy and history. But his quiet routines are shattered one morning when he comes upon a Norwegian tourist brutally murdered near a stone cross on the shore of Lake Superior. Another Norwegian man is nearby; covered in blood and staring out across the lake, he can only utter the word kjærlighet. Love. FBI agent Bob Lecuyer is assigned to the case, as is Norwegian detective Eirik Nyland, who is immediately flown in from Oslo. As the investigation progresses, Lance begins to make shocking discoveries—including one that involves the murder of an Ojibwe man on the very same site more than one hundred years ago. As Lance digs into two murders separated by a century, he finds the clues may in fact lead toward someone much closer to home than he could have imagined. The Land of Dreams is the opening chapter in a sweeping chronicle from one of Norway’s leading crime writers—a portrait of an extraordinary landscape, an exploration of hidden traumas and paths of silence that trouble history, and a haunting study in guilt and the bonds of blood.
Author : C. Denby Swanson
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0822229501
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (222 download)
Download or read book The Norwegians written by C. Denby Swanson and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-12-18 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A strong, bitter comedy about women scorned in Minnesota and the really, really nice gangsters—Norwegian hit men—they hire to whack their ex-boyfriends. Olive is a transplant from Texas and Betty is a transplant from Kentucky, but neither of them was prepared for the Norwegian men they would fall in love with there: the practical, warm, thoughtful, destructive, evil, jilting kind. If you're a hit man in Minnesota, 83% of your clients want to take out their ex (oofda!). Betty has referred Olive to Gus and Tor, a partnership in the whacking business. What Tor doesn't know is that Gus has been sleeping with the clients. What Olive doesn't know is that Gus is Betty's own ex, and she has already put out a hit on him with a Swiss firm. Can Betty call off the job in time to let Gus do his? Should she?
Author : Klas Bergman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781681340302
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Scandinavians in the State House written by Klas Bergman and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Nordic immigrant influence in Minnesota politics and culture, and the lasting legacy of a "Scandinavian state in the New World."
Author : Hjalmar Rued Holand
Publisher : Astri My Astri Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book History of the Norwegian Settlements written by Hjalmar Rued Holand and published by Astri My Astri Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of the Norwegian Settlements provides an engaging and enthusiastic depiction of the struggles as well as the triumphs of pioneer life. The 63-chapter non-fiction book lets readers trace the trails of 3,800 indexed immigrants through Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota and the Dakotas as they explore new frontiers and build new communities. Along the way lurk killer diseases, grasshopper plagues, prairie fires and loneliness.
Author : Solveig Zempel
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452903107
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)
Download or read book In Their Own Words written by Solveig Zempel and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2013-11-30 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most Norwegians in the nineteenth century, America was a remote and exotic place until the first immigrants began to write home. Their letters were among the most valuable, accessible, and reliable sources of information about the new world and the journey to it. For many immigrants, writing letters home was their most cherished opportunity to communicate their thoughts and feelings in their native language. Through vivid translations of letters written to family and friends between 1870 and 1945, In Their Own Words traces the stories of nine Norwegian immigrants: farmer, fisherman, gold miner, politician, unmarried mother, housewife, businessman, railroad worker, contractor. Their common bond was the experience of immigration and acculturation, but their individual experiences were manifested in a wide variety of forms. Solveig Zempel has thoughtfully selected and translated letters rich in personal description and observation to present each writer’s subjective view of historical events. Often focusing on the minutiae of daily life and the feelings of the individual immigrant, the letters form a complex, intimate, and colorful mosaic of the immigrant world. Solveig Zempel is chair of the Norwegian Department at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota.
Author : Jeffrey W. Hancks
Publisher : MSU Press
ISBN 13 : 160917044X
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Scandinavians in Michigan written by Jeffrey W. Hancks and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2006-05-12 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Scandinavian countries, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, are commonly grouped together by their close historic, linguistic, and cultural ties. Their age-old bonds continued to flourish both during and after the period of mass immigration to the United States in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Scandinavians felt comfortable with each other, a feeling forged through centuries of familiarity, and they usually chose to live in close proximity in communities throughout the Upper Midwest of the United States. Beginning in the middle of the nineteenth century and continuing until the 1920s, hundreds of thousands left Scandinavia to begin life in the United States and Canada. Sweden had the greatest number of its citizens leave for the United States, with more than one million migrating between 1820 and 1920. Per capita, Norway was the country most affected by the exodus; more than 850,000 Norwegians sailed to America between 1820 and 1920. In fact, Norway ranks second only to Ireland in the percentage of its population leaving for the New World during the great European migration. Denmark was affected at a much lower rate, but it too lost more than 300,000 of its population to the promise of America. Once gone, the move was usually permanent; few returned to live in Scandinavia. Michigan was never the most popular destination for Scandinavian immigrants. As immigrants began arriving in the North American interior, they settled in areas to the west of Michigan, particularly in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa, and North and South Dakota. Nevertheless, thousands pursued their American dream in the Great Lakes State. They settled in Detroit and played an important role in the city’s industrial boom and automotive industry. They settled in the Upper Peninsula and worked in the iron and copper mines. They settled in the northern Lower Peninsula and worked in the logging industry. Finally, they settled in the fertile areas of west Michigan and contributed to the state’s burgeoning agricultural sector. Today, a strong Scandinavian presence remains in town names like Amble, in Montcalm County, and Skandia, in Marquette County, and in local culinary delicacies like æbleskiver, in Greenville, and lutefisk, found in select grocery stores throughout the state at Christmastime.
Author : Clifford Davidson
Publisher : Discovering the Peoples of Mic
ISBN 13 : 9780870138782
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (387 download)
Download or read book Norwegians in Michigan written by Clifford Davidson and published by Discovering the Peoples of Mic. This book was released on 2010 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discovering the People of Michigan a series from Michigan State University Press, examines the rich multicultural heritage of the Great Lakes State and explores Michigan's ethnic dynamics. Michigan's rapidly changing historical and social structures have far-reaching implication in such areas as public policy, education, management, and private enterprise. Discovering the People of Michigan reveals the unique contributions that different and often unrecognized communities have made to Michigan's historical and social identity.
Author : Odd Sverre Lovoll
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 0873517962
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Norwegian Newspapers in America written by Odd Sverre Lovoll and published by Minnesota Historical Society. This book was released on 2010 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive look at the Norwegian-language press, celebrating the tireless writers, editors, and publishers whose efforts helped guide Norwegian immigrants on their path to becoming Norwegian Americans
Author : Sigrid Lien
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452957940
Total Pages : 751 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)
Download or read book Pictures of Longing written by Sigrid Lien and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2018-12-21 with total page 751 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haunting and revealing photographs sent home by Norwegian immigrants in America as visual document and collective expression of the emigrant experience Between 1836 and 1915, in what has been called history’s largest population migration, more than 750,000 Norwegians emigrated to North America. Writing home, the newcomers sent thousands of pictures—America–photographs, as they are called in Norway. In these photographs, the emigrant experience unfolds as framed by thousands of Norwegian transplants in towns, cities, and rural communities across America. Pictures of Longing brings more than 250 America–photographs into focus as a moving account of Norwegian migration in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, conceived of and crafted by its photographer-authors to shape and reshape their story. To clarify the historic nature and the cultural function of the America-photographs, art historian and photography scholar Sigrid Lien located thousands of the photographs in public and private archives and museums in Norway and the United States. Reading these photographs alongside letters sent home by Norwegian immigrants, Lien provides the first comprehensive account of this collective photographic practice involving “the voice of the many.” Pictures of Longing shows, in fascinating detail, how the photographs, like the accompanying letters, contribute to the cultural grassroots expression of Norwegian migration. They steer us toward multiple, fragmented, and dispersed histories and also complement the existing fabric of established historical narratives, demonstrating photography’s potential to engage with history.
Author : Lauraine Snelling
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 : 1441203184
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (412 download)
Download or read book An Untamed Land (Red River of the North Book #1) written by Lauraine Snelling and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2006-05-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proud of Their Heritage and Sustained by Their Faith, They Came to Tame a New Land She had promised herself that once they left the fjords of Norway, she would not look back. After three long years of scrimping and saving to buy tickets for their passage to America, Roald and Ingeborg Bjorklund, along with their son, Thorliff, finally arrive at the docks of New York City. It was the promise of free land that fed their dream and lured them from their beloved home high above the fjords of Norway in 1880. Together with Roald's brother Carl and his family, they will build a good life in a new land that promises untold wealth and vast farmsteads for their children. As they join the throngs of countless immigrants passing through Castle Garden, they soon discover that nothing is as they had envisioned it. Appalled by the horrid stories of fellow immigrants bilked of all their money and forced to live in squalid living conditions, the Bjorklunds continue their long journey by train as far as Grand Forks. From there a covered wagon takes them into Dakota Territory, where they settle on the banks of the Red River. But there was no way for them to foresee the price they will have to pay to wrest a living from the indomitable land. The virgin prairie refuses to yield its treasure without a struggle. Will they be strong enough to overcome the hardships of that first winter?
Author : George Tobias Flom
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States from the Earliest Beginning Down to the Year 1848 written by George Tobias Flom and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 782 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (26 download)
Download or read book The Working Farmer written by and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kristine Leander
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738559605
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Norwegian Seattle written by Kristine Leander and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Norwegians who immigrated to Seattle were a sturdy stock. Perhaps it was due to their ancient history as determined Viking seafarers--or their more recent experiences as tenacious fishermen, farmers, loggers, and carpenters. From the first Norwegians to arrive in 1868 through today, Seattle's Norwegian American community has maintained a remarkable cohesiveness. They participate in Sons and Daughters of Norway and other clubs; enjoy lutefisk dinners, lively music and dance groups, and the annual May 17 parade; boast elaborately knitted sweaters and historic costumes; and labor over language classes and genealogy. The result is a pride of heritage unique to the Norwegian Americans in Seattle and a sinew that binds their community.
