The Way It Was: The North Dakota Frontier Experience – Book Two: Norwegian Homesteaders

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Description from the back cover: “Here are the stories of the earliest pioneers of North Dakota told by folks who experienced the decades of the 1879s, 1880s, and 1890s. Recorded within the middle 1930s by interviewers working in a Works Progress Administration (WPA) project, folks who settled the land tell “how it used to be” for them once they came to the frontier. Gleaned from over 5,000 stories which might be stored on the State Historical Society of North Dakota. Norwegian Homesteaders, Book Two in a series of memories of the frontier enjoy, collects sixteen of the private histories of folks who came to that endless sea of grass that challenged their strength and spirit as they broke the sod and farmed the land. Every book is illustrated with photographs from North Dakota collections.”

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