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The Kensington Rune Stone, the Oldest Native Document of American History

History

Holand, Hjalmar Rued

Americas

Franklin Classics

To see informative as well as entertaining historical works such as Holand's lost to second-generation Americans because of a language barrier is a painful realization to one who has spent his life in the field of education. In this translation, I hope to convey to you, through Holand, the feelings and aspirations of Norwegian immigrants as they established settlements from New York on through the heart of the Midwest. Among the cities and regions cited in the book are Manhattan, New York; Fox River, Illinois; Muskego, Koshkonong, Ephraim, Coon Valley, and Green bay, Wisconsin; Grant, Goodhue, Kandiyohi, and Otter Tail counties, Norway Lake, Elbow Lake, and Minneapolis, Minnesota; Winneshiek County, Decorah, St. Ansgar, McGregor, and Spirit Lake, Iowa; Vermillion, Elk Point, Canton, and Sioux Falls, South Dakota; and the Red River Valley of North Dakota. Holand's easy style and sensitity make this an unusually palatable reading experience of pioneer adventure, as one tale flows into the other in this saga of migration across America.

Norwegians in America: The Last Migration: Bits of Saga from Pioneer Life = Original Title, Den Siste Folkevandring Sagastubber Fra Nybyggerlivet I Amerika

(Translated by Helmer M. Blegen)

Center for Western Studies, Augustana College

First published in 1925, Old Peninsula Days is easily the most famous book ever written about Door County. In writing it, Holand gathered memories and stories of early days on the peninsula and wove them into a narrative that has been delighting readers for sixty-five years. A few of the characters he writes about - people such as Robert Noble or A. M. Iverson, to name only two - seem truly larger than life, and some of the stories have become so widely known in Door County that not everyone who tells them is aware that they are quoting. Holand somewhat mysteriously notes that "two or Three...names have been changed, but otherwise it is true to fact." Many readers have puzzled over that remark and wondered what in the book was considered so sensitive as to require anonymity for those identified characters

Old Peninsula Days: Tales and Sketches of the Door County Peninsula

William Caxton Ltd

Legare Street Press

Old Peninsula Days: Tales And Sketches Of The Door County Peninsula

Hardcover Pioneer Publishing first published in 1925 for local consumption Numerous black and white photos and drawings documenting history of Door Peninsula in Wisconsin

Literature & Fiction

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