The Way it Was: Norwegian Homesteaders

The Way it Was: Norwegian Homesteaders

The Way it Was

The North Dakota Frontier Experience

Book Two: Norwegian Homesteaders

Everett C. Albers and D. Jerome Tweton, Editors

My great grandparents came to North Dakota in 1880 so as I read this book, I think of them!

Jim

Table of Contents

  1. Norwegian Storytellers - Everitt C. Albers
  2. The Norwegian in North Dakota History - D. Jerome Tweton
  3. Going Broke, Bouncing Back - Thomas J. Alstad
  4. When A Norwegian Marries a Swede - Hans and Betsy Amble
  5. Pre-empting, Tree Claiming and Homesteading in Eddy and Wells Counties - Peter B. Anderson
  6. Trouble with an Irishman - Nels Arntzen
  7. Kaldor Settlement on the Goose River - John E. Bagstad
  8. Opening Up Steele County - The Berg Family
  9. Early Arrivals in the Grand Forks Area - Kari Berg Brenna
  10. Squatting Pays Off - Anders Ellen
  11. Homesteading in a Jewish Neighborhood near Devils Lake - Lewis (Larson) Froguer
  12. Making Money and Dancing the Night Away - The Hoiland Family
  13. Trading Iowa for Northern Dakota - Mikkei Hylden
  14. Seven Years was Enough on the Homestead near Haynes - Louise Woodwick La Mont
  15. From Shepard Boy in Norway to Governor in North Dakota - Ragnvold A. Nestos
  16. Before Railroad and Towns: The Earliest of Norwegian Settlers - Andrew and Hanna Paulson
  17. Homesteading near Ambrose during the Second Boom - Ole E. Sims
  18. On the Banks of the Knife River - The Hans Siverts
  19. Index
  20. About the Editors

From the Back Cover

Here are the stories of the earliest pioneers of North Dakota told by those who experienced the decades of the 1870s, 1880s, and 1890s. Recorded in the middle 1930s by interviewers working in a Works Progress Administration (WPA) project, those who settled the land tell "the way it was" for them when they came to the frontier.

Gleaned from over 5,000 stories which are stored at the State Historical Society of North Dakota, Norwegian Homesteaders, Book Two in a series of memories of the frontier experience3, collects sixteen of the personal histories of those who came to that endless sea of grass that challenged their strength and spirit as they broke the sod and farmed the land. Each book is illustrated with photographs from North Dakota collections

This book follows Book One: The Sod-busters.

Library of Congress Catalog Record

  • LC Control No.: 95095347
  • Type of Material: Book (Print, Microform, Electronic, etc.)
  • Main Title: The way it was : the North Dakota frontier experience / D. Jerome Tweton and Everett C. Albers, editors.
  • Edition Information: 1st ed.
  • Published/Created: Fessenden, N.D. : Grass Roots Press, 1996-<2002 >
  • Related Names: Tweton, D. Jerome. Albers, Everett C.
  • Description: v. <1-3, 5 > : ill. ; 23 cm.
  • ISBN: 0965077802 (bk. 1 : pbk.) 0965077810 (8 volume set) Incomplete
  • Contents: bk. 1. The sod-busters -- bk. 2. Norwegian homesteaders -- bk. 3. The cowboys and ranchers -- bk. 5. Native people Notes: Includes index.
  • Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life --North Dakota --Anecdotes. Pioneers --North Dakota --Interviews. North Dakota --History --Anecdotes.
  • LC Classification: F655 .W39 1996
  • Dewey Class No.: 978.4 20
  • Geographic Area Code: n-us-nd
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