Norwegians in America, Their History and Record Volume 1

A translated version of the 1907 and 1913 Nordmændene i Amerika, deres Historie og Rekord. Written by Martin Ulvestad. Bilingual English and Norwegian. Translated into English by Olaf Tronsen Kringhaug and Odd-Steinar Dybvad Raneng. Transcribed from Gothic script by Benjamin Keith Huntrods. Published by Astri My Astri Publishing.

Ulvestad compiled these Norwegian-American pioneer stories by sending out 163,000 small books and pamphlets along with 450,000 circulars and forms to the early immigrants and their families. He then published the 1907 and 1913 books. The sagas tell of where the pioneers emigrated from in Norway and immigrated to in America; genealogy; life and hardships on the emigrant ships; canal boat and cattle car journeys; sickness; dugouts; sod huts; Indian Wars; blizzards; and more. Includes maps and an index of over 5,700 pioneers.

Hardcover, 480 pages.

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