Nothing To Do But Stay : My Pioneer Mother

Nothing To Do But Stay : My Pioneer Mother

by Carrie Young

I thought my immigrants were wealthy farmers, but that's only because I came along about 50+ years after they arrived! They had no future in Norway, and scratched out a living here to become the people I knew. The title of this book says it all!

Jim

From the Back Cover

Carrie Berg came to America from Norway at the age of three, grew up in Minnesota where she went into domestic service at the age of fifteen, and saved enough money by the time she was twenty-five to board a train to North Dakota to claim a homestead for herself.

A decade later she had, by her own ingenuity, doubled her landholdings and become a secure woman of property. Then, at an age when most other women would have been declared spinsters, she married Sever Berg and had six children. In this charming book, her daughter, Carrie Young tells the story of growing up under the care of this remarkable woman.

A native of North Dakota and a graduate of the University of Minnesota, Carrie Young has lived for many years on a farm in Ohio. She is the author of "The Wedding Dress (Iowa, 1992) Prairie Cooks (Iowa, 1993), and Green Broke, for which she received the Ohloana Library Association's Florence Roberts Head Memorial Award.

Library of Congress Catalog Record

  • LC Control No.: 90049401
  • Type of Material: Book (Print, Microform, Electronic, etc.)
  • Personal Name: Young, Carrie.
  • Main Title: Nothing to do but stay : my pioneer mother / by Carrie Young.
  • Edition Information: 1st ed.
  • Published/Created: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 1991.
  • Description: 117 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
  • ISBN: 0877453284 (acid-free paper) : $22.50 0877453292 (pbk. : acid-free paper) : $8.50
  • Subjects: Gafkjen, Carrine. Young, Carrie. Norwegian Americans --North Dakota --Biography. Norwegian Americans --North Dakota --Social life and customs. North Dakota --Social life and customs. North Dakota --Biography.
  • Series: A Bur oak original
  • LC Classification: F645.S2 Y68 1991
  • Dewey Class No.: 978.4/0043982022 B 20
  • Geographic Area Code: n-us-nd
 
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