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1) O pioneers!
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Language
English
Description
Cather presents the story of the Nebraska prairie. Alexandra Bergson, daughter of Swedish immigrant farmers, is devoted to the land and suffers the hardships of prairie life.
Author
Language
English
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Description
Life in Sweden seems like an endless winter for three sisters after their mother's and father's suicides. Ellin writes to her relatives in Chicago, pleading for help. Joining 16 million other immigrants who leave their homelands for America between 1890 and 1920, Ellin, Kirsten, and Sophia begin the long, difficult journey fraught with hardships.
Series
Heritage of Kansas volume 7, no. 4
Publisher
Dept. of English of the Kansas State Teachers College
Pub. Date
1963
Language
English
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6) Bluestem
Author
Publisher
Day Creek Press
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Although her father forbids Gust Jonasson to court Lovisa Carlgren, the young homesteader has his heart set on marrying her.
Author
Language
English
Description
Cold and poverty define Hanna Renstrom's childhood in remote northern Sweden, and in 1905, at nineteen, she boards a ship for Australia in hope of a better life. But none of her hopes--or fears--prepares her for the life she will lead. After two brief marriages, she finds herself a widow twice over, and the owner of a bordello in Portuguese East Africa, a world where colonialism and white supremacy rule, where she is isolated within society by her...
Author
Publisher
N. C. Eastman]
Pub. Date
1986
Language
English
Description
Gustavus Robert Ostman, born in Sweden, immigrated to the United States around 1868. They eventually homesteaded and reared their children near Bloomington, Osborne County, Kansas. Although some descendants have remained in the area, others have wandered widely.
