The settlers
Book - 1995
Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson struggle to prosper on their new farm in Minnesota during the 1850s. Kristina, coping with a feeling of loss for Sweden and the difficulty of adapting to a new land, draws strength from a new found spirituality. Karl Oskar brings more land under cultivation and harvests rye, wheat, and corn. Together they survive blizzards, grasshopper plagues, wildcat speculation in currnecy, and self-righteous neighbors.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English Swedish |
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St. Paul :
Borealis Books, an imprint of Minnesota Historical Society Press,
1995.
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| Series: | Moberg, Vilhelm, 1898-1973. Romanen om utvandrarna.
bk. 3. |
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The settlers / |c Vilhelm Moberg ; translated from the Swedish by Gustaf Lannestock ; with a new introduction by Roger McKnight. |
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| 520 | 0 | |a Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson struggle to prosper on their new farm in Minnesota during the 1850s. Kristina, coping with a feeling of loss for Sweden and the difficulty of adapting to a new land, draws strength from a new found spirituality. Karl Oskar brings more land under cultivation and harvests rye, wheat, and corn. Together they survive blizzards, grasshopper plagues, wildcat speculation in currnecy, and self-righteous neighbors. | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Preface: The land they changed -- Part one: foundation for growth -- New axes ringing in the forest -- The whore and the thief -- Planning and planting -- Guests in their own house -- Man and woman in the territory -- Starkodder the ox -- Ulrika in her glory -- "That Baptist ilk" -- Hemlandet comes to the immigrants -- Surveying the forest -- The letter to Sweden -- Part two: Gold and water -- The march of the hundred thousand -- A youth who is not young -- But the returned gold seeker does not sleep -- The first night -- Robert's ear speaks -- While the riches lay hidden in the house -- The second night -- Robert's ear speaks -- The missing gold seeker -- The third night -- Robert's ear speaks -- Wildcats of many breeds -- The fourth night -- Robert's ear speaks -- The unget-at-able -- The fifth night -- Robert's ear speaks -- Wildcat riches -- A stream that runs toward greater waters -- Part three: Blessed woman -- The queen in the kitchen -- The year fifty-seven -- The letter from Sweden -- Karl Oskar's followers -- A blessed woman's prayer -- Partners of America -- If God doesn't exist ... -- Prayer granted -- To reconcile oneself with fate -- The letter to Sweden. | |
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